Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 127
It was not till evening that I ventured out.
Who acts: cloak, I · What happens: not be, venture out · To what, where: evening
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (cloak, I), 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 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 evening | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ventured | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ventured | nsubj |
| 8 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 ventured | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | cloak | till evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | venture out | past | I | evening | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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