Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 119

On the way home, Ib told the boatman that he and Christina were as good as engaged to each other; and the boatman found out that he had always expected it would be so, and went home with Ib that evening, and remained the night in the farmhouse; but nothing further was said of the engagement.

Who acts: Ib, boatman, way · What happens: tell, be, engage, find out, expect, go · To what, where: boatman, way, farmhouse, nothing · 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, boatman, way), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
6	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boatman	det
9	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 good	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 good	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Christina	cc
13	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 he	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 told	ccomp
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 engaged	mark
18	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 good	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 engaged	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boatman	det
25	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 found	compound:prt
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 expected	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 expected	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 expected	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 expected	advmod
32	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 found	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 so	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 so	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 so	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	32 expected	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
40	home	home	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 Ib	case
42	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 evening	det
44	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl:unmarked
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 remained	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 remained	cc
47	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 night	det
49	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 remained	obl:unmarked
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 farmhouse	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 farmhouse	det
52	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 remained	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 said	punct
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 said	cc
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	58 said	nsubj:pass
56	further	further	ADV	_	58 said	advmod
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 said	aux:pass
58	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	conj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 engagement	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 engagement	det
61	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 said	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ib		the boatman	the way			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boatman=Recipient
2	is	past	Ib					good property	tree rules
3	engage	participle	Ib not said here					to each	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	find out	past	the boatman						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	expect	past · perfect · passive		boatman				always property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	is	would	way					so property	tree rules
7	go	past	Ib not said here				evening	with Ib; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ib=Beneficiary
8	remain	past	Ib not said here			the farmhouse	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in farmhouse=Location
9	say speech: assert	past · passive		nothing				of the engagement; further property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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