Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 121

They were signed, "Faithful till death;" but at the end of that time, one day the boatman came over to see Ib, with a kind greeting from Christina.

Who acts: boatman · What happens: sign, come over, see · To what, where: eyes, end, Ib

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 (boatman), 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	3 signed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 signed	aux:pass
3	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Faithful	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Faithful	punct
6	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signed	conj
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Faithful	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 signed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 signed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 end	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl:unmarked
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boatman	det
22	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 signed	conj
24	over	over	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	advcl
27	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 greeting	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 greeting	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 greeting	det
31	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 greeting	amod
32	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 Christina	case
34	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 greeting	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sign	past · passive		eyes = eye			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	come over	past	the boatman		at the end of that time; day	over property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
3	see	to-infinitive	the boatman not said here	Ib		with a kind greeting from Christina	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ib=Stimulus

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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