Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 22

One of them wished to go home and try on her ball dress, for this very dress and the ball were the cause of her being confirmed this time, otherwise she would not have been allowed to go.

Who acts: One, dress, cause · What happens: wish, go, try, be, confirm, not allow · To what, where: ball dress, cause

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, dress, cause), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wished	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wished	xcomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 try	cc
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 dress	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dress	nmod:poss
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dress	compound
13	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dress	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 dress	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 dress	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 dress	advmod
18	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cause	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ball	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ball	det
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dress	conj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cause	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cause	det
24	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	parataxis
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 confirmed	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 confirmed	nmod:poss
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 confirmed	aux:pass
28	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 cause	acl:relcl
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 confirmed	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 allowed	punct
32	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	38 allowed	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 allowed	nsubj:pass
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 allowed	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 allowed	advmod
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 allowed	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 allowed	aux:pass
38	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 confirmed	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 go	mark
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 allowed	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	One of people					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	One of people not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	infinitive	One of people not said here		child's ball dress			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	this dress and the ball	the cause				tree rules
5	confirm	gerund · passive		the cause not said here		time		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
6	not allow	would · perfect · passive		cause			otherwise property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	cause not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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