Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 67
This evening we are going to have a court ball."
Who acts: we · What happens: go, have · To what, where: court ball
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ball | compound |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | we | evening | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | we not said here | a court ball | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |
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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