Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 1

It was early in the afternoon, and just at dinner-time, when the three joyous travellers reached Villeneuve.

Who acts: It, three joyous travellers · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: Villeneuve

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, three joyous travellers), 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	6 afternoon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afternoon	cop
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 afternoon	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 afternoon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 afternoon	det
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 time	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	13 time	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dinner	punct
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afternoon	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 travellers	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 travellers	nummod
18	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 travellers	amod
19	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 time	advcl
21	Villeneuve	Villeneuve	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					in the afternoon; early property	tree rules
2	reach	past	the three joyous travellers	Villeneuve					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent villeneuve=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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