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title: It was a fine moonlight evening; and when they arrived, Ib stood hol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a fine moonlight evening; and when they arrived, Ib stood holding Christina's hand in his, as if he could not let her go. Who acts: village, lips, Ib, Christina. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 112

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It was a fine moonlight evening; and when they arrived, Ib stood holding Christina's hand in his, as if he could not let her go.

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**Who acts:** village, lips, Ib, Christina · **What happens:** be, arrive, stand, hold, not let, go · **To what, where:** fine moonlight evening, hand, 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 (village, lips, Ib, 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:pg27200:51:112
# text = It was a fine moonlight evening; and when they arrived, Ib stood holding Christina's hand in his, as if he could not let her go.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | village | a fine moonlight evening |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | lips *= lip* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Ib |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund | Ib *not said here* | Christina's hand |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **let** | could | Ib | Christina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | Christina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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