Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 18

Ib had never been on the heath where Christina's father lived, nor on the river; but at last came an opportunity.

Who acts: Ib, father · What happens: have, not be, live, come · To what, where: heath, river, opportunity, last

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, father), 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	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 heath	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 heath	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 heath	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heath	det
7	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lived	advmod
9	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 father	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Christina	case
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heath	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 river	punct
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 river	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 came	obl
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 opportunity	det
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Ib			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			the heath	tree rules
3	live	past	Christina's father		the river	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Location
4	come	past	Ib not said here	a opportunity	last	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location opportunity=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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