Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 110

They had only a few more hours to remain together, for Christina was obliged to return that evening to the neighboring village, to be ready for the carriage which was to start the next morning early for Herning.

Who acts: lips, carriage · What happens: have, remain, oblige, return, neighbor, be · To what, where: Christina

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 (lips, carriage), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 hours	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hours	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hours	amod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 hours	amod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remain	mark
9	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 remain	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 obliged	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 obliged	mark
13	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 obliged	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 obliged	aux:pass
15	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 return	mark
17	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 obliged	xcomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 evening	det
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 village	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 village	det
22	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 village	amod
23	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	27 ready	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	cop
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 return	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 carriage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 carriage	det
30	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ready	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 start	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 start	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 start	mark
34	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 carriage	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 morning	det
36	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 morning	amod
37	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 start	obl:unmarked
38	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 start	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 Herning	case
40	Herning	Herning	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 early	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	lips = lip		hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	remain	to-infinitive	lips = lip not said here			together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	oblige	past · passive		Christina			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	return	to-infinitive			evening	to the neighboring village result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
5	neighbor	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive				for the carriage; ready property	tree rules
7	is	past	the carriage		morning	early, start property	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.

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