Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 83

It was late in the day before all became quiet, but even then the poor young thing did not dare to move.

Who acts: shot, all, poor young thing · What happens: be, become, not dare, not move

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shot, all, poor young thing), 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	3 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 became	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	advcl
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dare	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 dare	cc
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 then	advmod
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 dare	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dare	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dare	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 dare	advmod
21	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 late	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 move	mark
23	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dare	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	shot	day	late property	tree rules
2	become	past	all		quiet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not dare	past · do-support	the poor young thing	then		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not move	to-infinitive	the poor young thing not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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