--- title: One day, about this time, the boatman paid a visit to Ib's parents,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: One day, about this time, the boatman paid a visit to Ib's parents, and told them that Christina was going to service, and that she had been remarkably fortunate in obtaining a good place, with most respectable people. " Who acts: boatman, Christina. 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" **Who acts:** boatman, Christina · **What happens:** pay, tell, go, be, obtain · **To what, where:** visit, parents, service, good place · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (boatman, Christina), 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:pg27200:51:87 # text = One day, about this time, the boatman paid a visit to Ib's parents, and told them that Christina was going to service, and that she had been remarkably fortunate in obtaining a good place, with most respectable people. " 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boatman boatman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 Ib Ib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 Christina Christina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 cop _ _ 33 remarkably remarkably ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 fortunate fortunate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 35 in in SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 obtaining obtain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 43 respectable respectable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | the boatman | a visit | | | day | to Ib's parents | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the boatman *not said here* | | parents *= parent* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | past · progressive | Christina | service | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past · perfect | Christina | | | | | fortunate, remarkably *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **obtain** | gerund | Christina *not said here* | a good place | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/88/) - ↑ back to [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/)