Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 86

Winter came; and the new year, and indeed many years passed away; until Ib was old enough to be confirmed, and, therefore, he went during a whole winter to the clergyman of the nearest village to be prepared.

Who acts: Winter, many years, Ib · What happens: come, pass away, be, confirm, go · To what, where: clergyman

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 (Winter, many years, Ib), 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	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 year	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 passed	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 old	mark
17	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 old	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 old	cop
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 old	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 confirmed	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 confirmed	aux:pass
23	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 old	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 therefore	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
31	during	during	ADP	_	34 winter	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 winter	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 winter	amod
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 clergyman	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 clergyman	det
37	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 village	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 village	det
40	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 village	amod
41	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 clergyman	nmod
42	to	to	PART	_	44 prepared	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 prepared	cop
44	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 village	acl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Winter		year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass away	past	many years			away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	Ib			enough, old property	tree rules
4	confirm	to-infinitive · passive	Ib not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
5	go	past	Ib	the clergyman of the nearest village	winter	therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clergyman=Initial_Location
6	is	to-infinitive	Ib not said here			prepared property	tree rules

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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