Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 36
The day was fixed, and they were to travel as far as Villeneuve the evening before, to be in time for the steamer which sailed in the morning for Montreux, and the godmother's daughters were to dress and adorn the bride.
Who acts: Babette, time, daughters · What happens: fix, travel, be, sail, dress, adorn · To what, where: day, bride
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 (Babette, time, daughters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 travel | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 travel | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 travel | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 travel | aux |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 travel | mark |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixed | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 travel | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Villeneuve | case |
| 14 | Villeneuve | Villeneuve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 far | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 evening | det |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 far | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 time | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 steamer | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 steamer | det |
| 25 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sailed | nsubj |
| 27 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 morning | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 morning | det |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sailed | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 Montreux | case |
| 32 | Montreux | Montreux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sailed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dress | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dress | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 godmother | det |
| 36 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 godmother | case |
| 38 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 dress | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 dress | aux |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 dress | mark |
| 41 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixed | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 adorn | cc |
| 43 | adorn | adorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 dress | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 bride | det |
| 45 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 adorn | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | the day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | travel | past | Babette | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | in time | for the steamer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sail | past | time | morning | for Montreux | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | dress | past | the godmother's daughters | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | adorn | infinitive | the godmother's daughters not said here | the bride | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bride=Destination |
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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