--- title: In the evening they all took a delightful walk under the walnut-tree… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the evening they all took a delightful walk under the walnut-trees, in front of the stately hotels; there were so many people, and such crowding, that Rudy was obliged to offer his arm to Babette. Who acts: relations, many people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/158/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) / 158 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 158 In the evening they all took a delightful walk under the walnut-trees, in front of the stately hotels; there were so many people, and such crowding, that Rudy was obliged to offer his arm to Babette. **Who acts:** relations, many people · **What happens:** take, be, oblige, offer · **To what, where:** delightful walk, walnut trees, Rudy, arm, Babette This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, many people), 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:pg27200:55:158 # text = In the evening they all took a delightful walk under the walnut-trees, in front of the stately hotels; there were so many people, and such crowding, that Rudy was obliged to offer his arm to Babette. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 walnut walnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 stately stately ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hotels hotel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 crowding crowding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | relations *= relation* | a delightful walk | | the walnut trees | evening | in front of the stately hotels; such crowding *obl* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Value in front=Location | | 2 | **be** | past | many people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **oblige** | past · passive | | Rudy | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 4 | **offer** | to-infinitive | | Rudy's arm | Babette | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to babette=Goal | 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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/159/) - ↑ back to [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/)