Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 108

Ib said nothing; but before the time came for them to part, it became quite clear to him that Christina must be his wife: had they not even in childhood been called the betrothed?

Who acts: Ib, hill, Christina · What happens: say, come, become, be, have, not call · To what, where: nothing, Ib, wife, lips, childhood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, hill, Christina), 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	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 part	mark
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 clear	advmod
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 wife	mark
22	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wife	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 wife	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 wife	cop
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 called	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	35 called	advmod
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	35 called	mark
33	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 called	nsubj:pass
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 called	aux:pass
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 had	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 betrothed	det
37	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 called	conj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ib	nothing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	come	past	Ib not said here			time	for lips = lip	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	hill		Ib		clear property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is a	must	Christina	Ib's wife				tree rules
5	have	past	Ib not said here	lips = lip				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	not call	participle · passive		childhood				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	betroth	participle						vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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