Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 12

He had never before been out at night, but had always slumbered secretly behind the warm rose-leaves.

Who acts: elf · What happens: have, slumber · To what, where: warm rose leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 before	advmod
4	before	before	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	aux
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 been	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slumbered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 slumbered	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slumbered	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 slumbered	advmod
13	slumbered	slumber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
14	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	13 slumbered	advmod
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 leaves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 leaves	det
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaves	amod
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaves	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slumbered	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	participle	elf					before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	slumber	past · perfect	elf not said here			the warm rose leaves		always, secretly property	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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