--- title: The day was fixed, and they were to travel as far as Villeneuve the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The day was fixed, and they were to travel as far as Villeneuve the evening before, to be in time for the steamer which sailed in the morning for Montreux, and the godmother's daughters were to dress and adorn the bride. Who acts: Babette, time, daughters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/36/) [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/) / [XIII. At the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/) / 36 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 36 The day was fixed, and they were to travel as far as Villeneuve the evening before, to be in time for the steamer which sailed in the morning for Montreux, and the godmother's daughters were to dress and adorn the bride. **Who acts:** Babette, time, daughters · **What happens:** fix, travel, be, sail, dress, adorn · **To what, where:** day, bride This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, time, daughters), 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:pg27200:64:36 # text = The day was fixed, and they were to travel as far as Villeneuve the evening before, to be in time for the steamer which sailed in the morning for Montreux, and the godmother's daughters were to dress and adorn the bride. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Villeneuve Villeneuve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 before before ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 steamer steamer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Montreux Montreux PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 adorn adorn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | past · passive | | the day | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **travel** | past | Babette | | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | in time | for the steamer | tree rules | | 4 | **sail** | past | time | | | | morning | for Montreux | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dress** | past | the godmother's daughters | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **adorn** | infinitive | the godmother's daughters *not said here* | | the bride | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bride=Destination | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/37/) - ↑ back to [XIII. At the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/)