Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 4

The three were invited to come to Montreux; it was but right for Babette to become acquainted with her godmother, who wished to see her very much.

Who acts: three, it, godmother · What happens: invite, come, be, become, wish, see · To what, where: three, Montreux, Babette

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, it, godmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 invited	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invited	aux:pass
4	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 invited	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Montreux	case
8	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 right	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 right	cc
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 invited	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 Babette	case
15	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 right	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 become	mark
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 right	csubj
18	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 become	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 godmother	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 godmother	nmod:poss
21	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 acquainted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wished	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 wished	nsubj
24	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 godmother	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wished	xcomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	26 see	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	invite	past · passive		the three			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the three not said here		Montreux		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to montreux=Initial_Location
3	is	past	it			for Babette; right property	tree rules
4	become	to-infinitive				acquainted property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	wish	past	Babette's godmother				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Babette's godmother not said here	Babette			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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