Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 33

They were not to be married at the church at Bex, nor at the miller's house; Babette's godmother wished the nuptials to be solemnized at Montreux, in the pretty little church in that town.

Who acts: godmother · What happens: not marry, wish, solemnize · To what, where: Babette, church, nuptials, pretty little church, Montreux

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 married	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 married	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 married	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 married	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Bex	case
11	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 church	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 house	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 miller	det
16	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 miller	case
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 church	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wished	punct
20	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 godmother	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Babette	case
22	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wished	nsubj
23	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 married	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nuptials	det
25	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wished	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 solemnized	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 solemnized	aux:pass
28	solemnized	solemnize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 nuptials	acl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 Montreux	case
30	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 solemnized	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 church	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 church	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 church	det
34	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 church	amod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 church	amod
36	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wished	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 town	case
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 town	det
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 church	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not marry	past · passive		Babette	the church at Bex nor the miller's house	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	wish	past	Babette's godmother	the nuptials	the pretty little church in that town	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nuptial=Theme
3	solemnize	to-infinitive · passive	Babette's godmother not said here	the nuptials not said here	Montreux	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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