Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 96

But she was well off with the rich innkeeper; and after being confirmed she wrote a letter to her father, in which was a kind message to Ib and his mother.

Who acts: mother, kind message · What happens: be, confirm, write · To what, where: letter, father

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 (mother, kind message), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3788): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 off	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 off	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 off	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 off	advmod
5	off	off	ADV	_	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 innkeeper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 innkeeper	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 innkeeper	amod
9	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 off	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wrote	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wrote	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 confirmed	mark
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 confirmed	aux:pass
14	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wrote	advcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrote	nsubj
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 off	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 letter	det
18	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 which	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 letter	acl:relcl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 which	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 message	det
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 message	amod
28	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 which	nsubj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Ib	case
30	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 message	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mother	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Ib	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 off	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	mother			with the rich innkeeper; off, well property	tree rules
2	confirm	gerund · passive	mother not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
3	write	past	mother	a letter	mother's father		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to father=Recipient
4	is	past	a kind message to Ib and father's mother	a letter not said here			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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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