Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 84
In the evening, towards midnight, at daybreak, and all the day through, came the trains.
What happens: come · To what, where: trains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 midnight | punct |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daybreak | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 daybreak | case |
| 9 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 day | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trains | det |
| 19 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the trains | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location train=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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