--- title: "It was yesterday, in the morning twilight"--these are the words the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It was yesterday, in the morning twilight"--these are the words the Moon told me--"in the great city no chimney was yet smoking--and it was just at the chimneys that I was looking. Who acts: It, these, Moon, chimney. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, these, Moon, chimney), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:116:1 # text = "It was yesterday, in the morning twilight"--these are the words the Moon told me--"in the great city no chimney was yet smoking--and it was just at the chimneys that I was looking. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 twilight twilight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 yet yet ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 smoking smoke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 chimneys chimney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | It | yesterday and the words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | these | the words | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Moon | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **smoke** *in a quote* | past · progressive | no chimney | | | the great city | yet | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | chimney | | | the chimneys | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the Moon *= moon* | the chimneys | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [Twenty-fourth Evening, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/19/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/116/2/) - ↑ back to [Twenty-fifth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/116/)