Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 87
One day, about this time, the boatman paid a visit to Ib's parents, and told them that Christina was going to service, and that she had been remarkably fortunate in obtaining a good place, with most respectable people. "
Who acts: boatman, Christina · What happens: pay, tell, go, be, obtain · To what, where: visit, parents, service, good place · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boatman | det |
| 9 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paid | nsubj |
| 10 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 visit | det |
| 12 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paid | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 parents | case |
| 14 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Ib | case |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 visit | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 paid | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 going | mark |
| 22 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 told | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 service | mark |
| 26 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fortunate | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fortunate | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 fortunate | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fortunate | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fortunate | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 fortunate | cop |
| 33 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 34 fortunate | advmod |
| 34 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 paid | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 obtaining | mark |
| 36 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 fortunate | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 place | det |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 place | amod |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 obtaining | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 people | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 people | case |
| 42 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 people | amod |
| 43 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 people | amod |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 paid | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 people | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the boatman | a visit | day | to Ib's parents | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the boatman not said here | parents = parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | Christina | service | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | Christina | fortunate, remarkably property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | obtain | gerund | Christina not said here | a good place | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=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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