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title: Towards midnight Palle Dyre came home, but Dame Dyre came neither at… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards midnight Palle Dyre came home, but Dame Dyre came neither at midnight, nor next morning. Who acts: Palle, Dame. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 104

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Towards midnight Palle Dyre came home, but Dame Dyre came neither at midnight, nor next morning.

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**Who acts:** Palle, Dame · **What happens:** come

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palle, Dame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:149:104
# text = Towards midnight Palle Dyre came home, but Dame Dyre came neither at midnight, nor next morning.
1	Towards	towards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Palle	Palle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Dyre	Dyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Dyre	Dyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Palle  midnight |  |  |  | morning | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Dame |  |  |  | midnight | neither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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