Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 124

I could not place it on my finger during the daytime, but only in the evening, when I went to bed.

Who acts: I · What happens: go · To what, where: bed

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 place	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 place	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 place	advmod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 place	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 finger	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 finger	nmod:poss
8	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	nmod
9	during	during	ADP	_	11 daytime	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daytime	det
11	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finger	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 evening	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 evening	cc
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 evening	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 evening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 went	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 evening	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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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