Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 112

It was a fine moonlight evening; and when they arrived, Ib stood holding Christina's hand in his, as if he could not let her go.

Who acts: village, lips, Ib, Christina · What happens: be, arrive, stand, hold, not let, go · To what, where: fine moonlight evening, hand, 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 (village, lips, Ib, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 evening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evening	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 evening	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evening	compound
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 arrived	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 arrived	nsubj
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stood	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 arrived	punct
13	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evening	conj
15	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stood	xcomp
16	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hand	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Christina	case
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 holding	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 his	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 holding	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 let	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 let	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 let	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stood	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	village	a fine moonlight evening	tree rules
2	arrive	past	lips = lip		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	Ib		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hold	gerund	Ib not said here	Christina's hand	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Eventuality
5	not let	could	Ib	Christina	tree rules
6	go	infinitive	Christina not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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