Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 75

The evening was closing in when the Raven returned.

Who acts: evening, Raven · What happens: close in, return

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Raven), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closing	aux
4	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 closing	compound:prt
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 returned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Raven	det
8	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closing	parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 closing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close in	past · progressive	the evening						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	return	past	the Raven						vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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