Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 6

It was first towards evening when the sun was down, that they began to freshen up again.

Who acts: sun, lands · What happens: be, begin, freshen up

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, lands), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 evening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	cop
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 evening	advmod
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 evening	case
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 down	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 down	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 down	cop
10	down	down	ADV	_	5 evening	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 began	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 freshen	mark
16	freshen	freshen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 freshen	compound:prt
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 freshen	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun	towards evening	first property	tree rules
2	is	past	the sun		down property	tree rules
3	begin	past	lands = land			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	freshen up	to-infinitive	lands = land not said here	again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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