Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 76

So after that he was obliged to drink again, and they sat and drank till far into the night.

Who acts: lights · What happens: oblige, drink, sit · To what, where: farmer

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights), 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	_	6 obliged	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 obliged	mark
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 obliged	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 obliged	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 obliged	aux:pass
6	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drink	mark
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 obliged	xcomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 drink	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 obliged	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drank	cc
15	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
16	till	till	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 drank	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drank	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		farmer			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	drink	to-infinitive			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	lights = light				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	past	lights = light not said here		night	far property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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