--- title: There was a large party at the mansion; many guests from the neighbo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There was a large party at the mansion; many guests from the neighbourhood and from the capital had arrived. Who acts: large party. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/) / 99 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 99 There was a large party at the mansion; many guests from the neighbourhood and from the capital had arrived. **Who acts:** large party · **What happens:** be, arrive · **To what, where:** many guests This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:155:99 # text = There was a large party at the mansion; many guests from the neighbourhood and from the capital had arrived. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mansion mansion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 neighbourhood neighbourhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 arrived arrive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a large party at the mansion | | | there | | | tree rules | | 2 | **arrive** | past · perfect · passive | | many guests from the neighbourhood and the capital | | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/100/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)