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title: Ib said nothing; but before the time came for them to part, it becam… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ib said nothing; but before the time came for them to part, it became quite clear to him that Christina must be his wife: had they not even in childhood been called the betrothed? Who acts: Ib, hill, Christina. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 108

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Ib said nothing; but before the time came for them to part, it became quite clear to him that Christina must be his wife: had they not even in childhood been called the betrothed?

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**Who acts:** Ib, hill, Christina · **What happens:** say, come, become, be, have, not call · **To what, where:** nothing, Ib, wife, lips, childhood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, hill, Christina), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:51:108
# text = Ib said nothing; but before the time came for them to part, it became quite clear to him that Christina must be his wife: had they not even in childhood been called the betrothed?
1	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ib | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | Ib *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for lips *= lip* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | hill |  | Ib |  |  | clear *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | must | Christina | Ib's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | Ib *not said here* | lips *= lip* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **call** | participle · passive |  | childhood |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **betroth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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