Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 66
It had been late in the evening before the Viking's wife retired to rest.
Who acts: castle, wife · What happens: be, retire, rest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, wife), 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 | 7 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 evening | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 evening | cop |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 evening | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 retired | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Viking | det |
| 10 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Viking | case |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 retired | nsubj |
| 13 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 evening | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rest | mark |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 retired | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | castle | in the evening | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | retire | past | the Viking's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | the Viking's wife not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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