Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 14

Sometimes, when her father had to go as far as the town, he would take Little Christina, who was a year younger than Ib, across the heath to the cottage of Jeppe Jans, and leave her there.

Who acts: father, Little Christina · What happens: have, go, take, be, leave · To what, where: Little Christina, heath, forest

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 (father, Little 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 had	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 far	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 go	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 far	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
18	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Christina	amod
19	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 younger	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 younger	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 younger	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 younger	obl:unmarked
25	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 Christina	amod
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 Ib	case
27	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 younger	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 heath	punct
29	across	across	ADP	_	31 heath	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 heath	det
31	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 cottage	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cottage	det
34	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heath	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Jans	case
36	Jeppe	Jeppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Jans	compound
37	Jans	Jan	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 cottage	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 leave	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 leave	cc
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 leave	obj
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 leave	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	forest's father					sometimes property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	forest's father not said here					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	would	father		Little Christina	the heath to the cottage of Jeppe Jans			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument christina=Destination
4	is	past	Little Christina				year	than Ib; young property	tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	forest's father not said here	forest		there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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