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title: And now there was a ball to be given in the General's house for Emil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And now there was a ball to be given in the General's house for Emily, and could Mr. George be invited to it? Who acts: ball. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 116

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And now there was a ball to be given in the General's house for Emily, and could Mr. George be invited to it?

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**Who acts:** ball · **What happens:** be, give, invite · **To what, where:** house, George, ball

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, 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 (ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:147:116
# text = And now there was a ball to be given in the General's house for Emily, and could Mr. George be invited to it?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a ball |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive · passive | a ball *not said here* |  |  | the General's house for Emily |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» |
| 3 | **invite** | could · passive |  | George  Mr. | ball |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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