--- title: As soon as night came on, she slipped out of the house, and went int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as night came on, she slipped out of the house, and went into the wood, to the spot where the linden-tree stood; and after removing the leaves from the earth, she turned it up, and there found him who had been murdered. Who acts: girl, linden tree. 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C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, linden tree), 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:pg27200:30:49 # text = As soon as night came on, she slipped out of the house, and went into the wood, to the spot where the linden-tree stood; and after removing the leaves from the earth, she turned it up, and there found him who had been murdered. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 linden linden NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 32 after after SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 removing remove VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 47 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 murdered murder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come on** | past | | | | | night | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **slip out** | past | girl | the house | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 3 | **go** | past | | | | the wood | | to the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location to spot=Destination | | 4 | **stand** | past | the linden tree | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remove** | gerund | girl *not said here* | the leaves | | the earth | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from earth=Source | | 6 | **turn up** | past | girl | tree | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 7 | **find** | past | | leaf | | there | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | | 8 | **murder** | past · perfect · passive | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/50/) - ↑ back to [The Elf of the Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/)