--- title: Now that Anne Lisbeth was at her journey's end, she was kept waiting… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Now that Anne Lisbeth was at her journey's end, she was kept waiting a long time; and for those who wait, time passes slowly. Who acts: Anne, end, time. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/) / 54 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 54 Now that Anne Lisbeth was at her journey's end, she was kept waiting a long time; and for those who wait, time passes slowly. **Who acts:** Anne, end, time · **What happens:** be, keep, wait, pass, journey · **To what, where:** end This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, end, time), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:5:54 # text = Now that Anne Lisbeth was at her journey's end, she was kept waiting a long time; and for those who wait, time passes slowly. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 3 Anne Anne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 Lisbeth Lisbeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 28 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Anne | | | | at Anne's journey's end | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | past · passive | | Anne's journey's end | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | Anne's journey's end *not said here* | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | present | that time | | | | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **journey** | | Anne | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/55/) - ↑ back to [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/)