Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 104
Towards midnight Palle Dyre came home, but Dame Dyre came neither at midnight, nor next morning.
Who acts: Palle, Dame · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palle, Dame), 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 | Towards | towards | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Palle | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Palle | Palle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | Dyre | Dyre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Palle | flat |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 9 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 10 | Dyre | Dyre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dame | flat |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 midnight | case |
| 14 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 morning | cc |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Palle midnight | morning | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | Dame | midnight | neither property | 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: «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.
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