Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 87

But when she came to him she found that he would not be ready to start till the evening of the next day.

Who acts: Anne, foot · What happens: come, find, not be, start · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, foot), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ready	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ready	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 ready	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 start	mark
16	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ready	xcomp
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 evening	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 evening	det
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 start	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 evening	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Anne	foot			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	find	past	Anne				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	not is	would	foot			ready property	tree rules
4	start	to-infinitive	foot not said here		evening		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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