--- title: Eighteen years before, when Babette was christened, this lady was st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Eighteen years before, when Babette was christened, this lady was staying at Bex, and she stood godmother for her, and gave her the valuable brooch she now wore in her bosom. Who acts: lady, arm. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/162/) [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/) / 162 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 162 Eighteen years before, when Babette was christened, this lady was staying at Bex, and she stood godmother for her, and gave her the valuable brooch she now wore in her bosom. **Who acts:** lady, arm · **What happens:** christen, stay, stand, give, wear, bosom · **To what, where:** Babette, Bex, godmother, valuable brooch, arm, bosom 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 (lady, arm), 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:pg27200:55:162 # text = Eighteen years before, when Babette was christened, this lady was staying at Bex, and she stood godmother for her, and gave her the valuable brooch she now wore in her bosom. 1 Eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 before before ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 christened christen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Bex Bex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 brooch brooch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **christen** | past · passive | | Babette | | | | before *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | | 2 | **stay** | past · progressive | this lady | | | Bex | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bex=Location | | 3 | **stand** | past | arm | godmother | | | | for Valais | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus for she=Attribute | | 4 | **give** | past | arm *not said here* | the valuable brooch | arm | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient brooch=Theme | | 5 | **wear** | past | arm | the valuable brooch *not said here* | | arm's bosom | now | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brooch=Theme | | 6 | **bosom** | | arm | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/161/) - next →: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/163/) - ↑ back to [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/)