Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 12

And as the game was now to begin, all were invited to take part in it, even the children's wagon, which certainly belonged to the coarser playthings. "

Who acts: game, all, wagon · What happens: begin, invite, take, belong · To what, where: all, part, game

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, all, wagon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 invited	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 begin	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 begin	aux
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 begin	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 begin	mark
8	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 invited	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 invited	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 invited	aux:pass
12	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 invited	xcomp
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wagon	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	23 wagon	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wagon	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 children	case
23	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invited	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 belonged	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 belonged	nsubj
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	27 belonged	advmod
27	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wagon	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 playthings	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 playthings	det
30	coarser	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 playthings	amod
31	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 belonged	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 invited	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the game			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	invite	past · passive		all			the children's wagon obl	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	all not said here	part	game			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in it=Location
4	belong	past	the children's wagon				to the coarser playthings; certainly property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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