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title: It was late in the day before all became quiet, but even then the po… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was late in the day before all became quiet, but even then the poor young thing did not dare to move. Who acts: shot, all, poor young thing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 83

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It was late in the day before all became quiet, but even then the poor young thing did not dare to move.

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**Who acts:** shot, all, poor young thing · **What happens:** be, become, not dare, not move

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shot, all, poor young thing), 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:pg27200:201:83
# text = It was late in the day before all became quiet, but even then the poor young thing did not dare to move.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | shot |  |  |  | day | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | all |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | the poor young thing |  |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **move** | to-infinitive | the poor young thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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