--- title: On the evening before the day he had settled to return with the capt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: On the evening before the day he had settled to return with the captain of the passage-boat, Ib lost himself in the streets, and took quite a different turning to the one he wished to follow. Who acts: Ib. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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), 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:pg27200:51:172 # text = On the evening before the day he had settled to return with the captain of the passage-boat, Ib lost himself in the streets, and took quite a different turning to the one he wished to follow. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Ib Ib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 32 det:predet _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 33 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **settle** | past · perfect | Ib | | | | evening | | tree rules | | 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | Ib *not said here* | | | | | with the captain of the passage boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | past | Ib | Ib | | the streets | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | | 4 | **take** | past | Ib *not said here* | | | | | different *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | gerund | Ib *not said here* | | the one | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to one=Trajectory | | 6 | **wish** | past | Ib | the one *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ib *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/171/) - next →: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/173/) - ↑ back to [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/)