Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 44

*Corsor, on the Great Belt, called, formerly, before the introduction of steam-vessels, when travellers were often obliged to wait a long time for a favorable wind, “the most tiresome of towns.”

What happens: call, oblige, wait, introduce · To what, where: Corsor, travellers, steam vessels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	*	*	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
2	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Belt	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 Belt	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Belt	det
6	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Belt	amod
7	Belt	Belt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Corsor	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 formerly	punct
11	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	9 called	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 introduction	punct
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 introduction	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 introduction	det
15	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 vessels	case
17	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 vessels	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 steam	punct
19	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 introduction	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 obliged	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 obliged	advmod
22	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 obliged	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obliged	aux:pass
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 obliged	advmod
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 introduction	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wait	mark
27	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 obliged	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wait	obl:unmarked
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 wind	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wind	det
33	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wind	amod
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wait	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tiresome	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 tiresome	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tiresome	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 tiresome	advmod
39	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wind	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 towns	case
41	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 tiresome	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive	Corsor		formerly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	oblige	past · passive	travellers		often property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	wait	to-infinitive		time	for a favorable wind	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	introduce		steam vessels			nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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