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title: On the way home, Ib told the boatman that he and Christina were as g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the way home, Ib told the boatman that he and Christina were as good as engaged to each other; and the boatman found out that he had always expected it would be so, and went home with Ib that evening, and remained the night in the farmhouse; but nothing further was said of the engagement. Who act
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 119

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On the way home, Ib told the boatman that he and Christina were as good as engaged to each other; and the boatman found out that he had always expected it would be so, and went home with Ib that evening, and remained the night in the farmhouse; but nothing further was said of the engagement.

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**Who acts:** Ib, boatman, way · **What happens:** tell, be, engage, find out, expect, go · **To what, where:** boatman, way, farmhouse, nothing · **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, boatman, way), 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:pg27200:51:119
# text = On the way home, Ib told the boatman that he and Christina were as good as engaged to each other; and the boatman found out that he had always expected it would be so, and went home with Ib that evening, and remained the night in the farmhouse; but nothing further was said of the engagement.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boatman	boatman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	18	obl	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boatman	boatman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
40	home	home	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	further	further	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ib |  | the boatman | the way |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boatman=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ib |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **engage** | participle | Ib *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **find out** | past | the boatman |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  | boatman |  |  |  | always *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | would | way |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | past | Ib *not said here* |  |  |  | evening | with Ib; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ib=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **remain** | past | Ib *not said here* |  |  | the farmhouse | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in farmhouse=Location |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of the engagement; further *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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