Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 141

She was taken to Copenhagen under the protection of her future mother-in-law, because the bridegroom could not spare time from his numerous occupations for a journey so far into Jutland.

Who acts: bridegroom, Copenhagen · What happens: take, not spare, protect, occupy · To what, where: bridegroom, Copenhagen, protection, numerous occupations, future mother

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 (bridegroom, Copenhagen), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Copenhagen	case
5	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 protection	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 protection	det
8	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 mother	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
11	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mother	amod
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protection	nmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 law	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 law	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 in	punct
16	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spare	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 spare	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridegroom	det
20	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spare	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 spare	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 spare	advmod
23	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taken	parataxis
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spare	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 occupations	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 occupations	nmod:poss
27	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 occupations	amod
28	occupations	occupation	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spare	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 journey	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 journey	det
31	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 occupations	nmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 spare	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 Jutland	case
35	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 far	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		bridegroom	Copenhagen	the protection of bridegroom's future mother in law			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to copenhagen=Destination
2	not spare	could	the bridegroom			Copenhagen's numerous occupations for a journey	time	far property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
3	protect			bridegroom's future mother in law					nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient
4	occupy		Copenhagen					for a journey	nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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