Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 150

The legend says that every night, at twelve o'clock, he drove into his castleyard and out again.

Who acts: legend · What happens: say, drive · To what, where: twelve o'clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drove	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 o'clock	case
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 o'clock	nummod
10	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 o'clock	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drove	nsubj
13	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 castleyard	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 castleyard	nmod:poss
16	castleyard	castleyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 again	cc
18	out	out	ADV	_	19 again	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	13 drove	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the legend				night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drive	past	legend			twelve o'clock		into legend's castleyard	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into castleyard=Trajectory

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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