Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 149

It was late in the evening when we reached my mother's door.

Who acts: homeward, we · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homeward, we), 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 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	advcl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	homeward				evening	late property	tree rules
2	reach	past	we	my mother's door					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=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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