Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 18

Some wanted to begin with a comedy, and afterwards to have a tea party and a discussion for mental improvement, but they commenced with the latter first.

Who acts: Some, party · What happens: want, begin, have, commence · To what, where: tea party

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 (Some, party), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 begin	mark
4	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 comedy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 comedy	det
7	comedy	comedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begin	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begin	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 party	det
14	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 party	compound
15	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 discussion	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 discussion	det
18	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 party	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 improvement	case
20	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 improvement	amod
21	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 discussion	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 commenced	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 commenced	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 commenced	nsubj
25	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 latter	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 latter	det
28	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 commenced	obl
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 commenced	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Some			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	begin not said to happen	to-infinitive	Some not said here		with a comedy	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with comedy=Subeventuality
3	have	to-infinitive	Some not said here	a tea party and a discussion for mental improvement	afterwards property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient
4	commence	past	party		with the latter; first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with latter=Subeventuality

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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