Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 37

It was the dawn of morning before the wicked man reached home; he took off his hat, and went into his sister's room.

Who acts: hat, wicked man, elf · What happens: be, reach, take off, go · To what, where: dawn, hat, room

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 (hat, wicked man, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dawn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dawn	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dawn	det
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 morning	case
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dawn	nmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dawn	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 reached	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dawn	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hat	nmod:poss
18	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 room	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sister	nmod:poss
24	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 room	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 sister	case
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hat	the dawn		morning		tree rules
2	reach	past	the wicked man				home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take off	past	elf	elf's hat				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
4	go	past	elf not said here		elf's sister's room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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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