Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 41

One of this merchant's largest and finest ships was to be sent that year to Stockholm, and it was arranged that the dear young couple, the daughter and the son-in-law, should travel in it to St. Petersburg.

What happens: send, arrange, travel · To what, where: One, Stockholm, merchant, Petersburg

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sent	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	9 ships	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ships	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 merchant	case
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 ships	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 finest	cc
8	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 largest	conj
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 sent	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 sent	aux:pass
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Stockholm	case
17	Stockholm	Stockholm	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arranged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 arranged	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 arranged	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 arranged	aux:pass
22	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sent	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 couple	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 couple	det
25	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 couple	amod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 couple	amod
27	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arranged	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 daughter	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 daughter	det
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 couple	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 son	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 son	det
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 couple	conj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 law	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 law	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 in	punct
37	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 son	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 travel	punct
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 travel	aux
40	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sent	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 travel	obl
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 Petersburg	case
44	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Petersburg	nmod:desc
45	Petersburg	Petersburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 travel	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	past · passive	One of this merchant's largest ships	Stockholm		year	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stockholm=Destination
2	arrange	past · passive	merchant				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	travel	should		Petersburg St.	merchant		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory

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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