Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 9

She called out to the others, "Let us have a game at being men and women, that is something worth playing at."

Who acts: neck, us, that · What happens: call out, let, have, be, play · To what, where: others, us, game, something · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (neck, us, that), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
9	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Let	obj
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 game	det
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 men	case
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 men	cop
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 women	cc
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 men	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 something	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 something	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 something	cop
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 men	conj
23	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 something	amod
24	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 worth	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	24 playing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	neck		the others		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
2	let in a quote	infinitive	neck not said here	us			tree rules
3	have in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	a game			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
4	is in a quote	gerund				at men and women	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	that	something			tree rules
6	play in a quote	gerund	that not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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