Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 158

In the evening they all took a delightful walk under the walnut-trees, in front of the stately hotels; there were so many people, and such crowding, that Rudy was obliged to offer his arm to Babette.

Who acts: relations, many people · What happens: take, be, oblige, offer · To what, where: delightful walk, walnut trees, Rudy, arm, Babette

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, many people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 they	det
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 walk	det
8	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 walk	amod
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	14 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trees	det
12	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trees	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 walnut	punct
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 front	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 front	case
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 hotels	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hotels	det
20	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hotels	amod
21	hotels	hotel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 front	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 were	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 were	expl
24	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 were	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crowding	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crowding	cc
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 crowding	amod
31	crowding	crowding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 obliged	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 obliged	mark
34	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 obliged	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 obliged	aux:pass
36	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 took	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 offer	mark
38	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 obliged	xcomp
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arm	nmod:poss
40	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 offer	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 Babette	case
42	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 offer	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	relations = relation	a delightful walk		the walnut trees	evening	in front of the stately hotels; such crowding obl	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Value in front=Location
2	be	past	many people			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	oblige	past · passive		Rudy					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	offer	to-infinitive		Rudy's arm	Babette				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to babette=Goal

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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