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title: They had only a few more hours to remain together, for Christina was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had only a few more hours to remain together, for Christina was obliged to return that evening to the neighboring village, to be ready for the carriage which was to start the next morning early for Herning. Who acts: lips, carriage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 110

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They had only a few more hours to remain together, for Christina was obliged to return that evening to the neighboring village, to be ready for the carriage which was to start the next morning early for Herning.

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**Who acts:** lips, carriage · **What happens:** have, remain, oblige, return, neighbor, be · **To what, where:** Christina

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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 (lips, carriage), 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:pg27200:51:110
# text = They had only a few more hours to remain together, for Christina was obliged to return that evening to the neighboring village, to be ready for the carriage which was to start the next morning early for Herning.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Herning	Herning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | lips *= lip* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | to-infinitive | lips *= lip* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Christina |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | evening | to the neighboring village *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result |
| 5 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the carriage; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | the carriage |  |  |  | morning | early, start *property* | tree rules |

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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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