Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 69

So he was obliged to go to the mill and make inquiries, and there he heard that the miller had gone on a journey to Interlachen, and taken Babette with him, to the great shooting festival, which began that morning, and would continue for eight days, and that people from all the German settlements would be there.

Who acts: Rudy, miller, great shooting festival, people · What happens: oblige, go, make, hear, take, begin · To what, where: Rudy, mill, inquiries, Interlachen, journey, Babette · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rudy, miller, great shooting festival, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 obliged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
12	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 heard	expl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 gone	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 miller	det
20	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 heard	ccomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 journey	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 journey	det
25	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Interlachen	case
27	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 gone	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taken	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taken	cc
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 heard	conj
31	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 taken	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taken	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 festival	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 festival	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 festival	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 festival	amod
38	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 festival	compound
39	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 festival	acl:relcl
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 morning	det
44	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 began	obl:unmarked
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 continue	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 continue	cc
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 continue	aux
48	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	conj
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 days	case
50	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 days	nummod
51	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 continue	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 there	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 there	cc
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 there	mark
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 there	nsubj
56	from	from	ADP	_	60 settlements	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 settlements	det:predet
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 settlements	det
59	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 settlements	amod
60	settlements	settlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 people	nmod
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 there	aux
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 there	cop
63	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 obliged	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		Rudy					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	go	to-infinitive				the mill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_Location
3	make	infinitive		inquiries					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product
4	hear	past	Rudy			there			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	past · perfect	the miller		Interlachen	a journey			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to interlachen=Initial_Location
6	take	participle	Rudy not said here		Babette			with Rudy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument babette=Destination
7	begin	past	the great shooting festival				morning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	continue	would	Rudy not said here				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	would	people from all German settlements					there 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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