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title: Late in the evening he returned home with the fatal news,--to that h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Late in the evening he returned home with the fatal news,--to that home which was now to be so full of sorrow. Who acts: Rudy, home. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 50

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Late in the evening he returned home with the fatal news,--to that home which was now to be so full of sorrow.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, home · **What happens:** return, be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, home), 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:pg27200:54:50
# text = Late in the evening he returned home with the fatal news,--to that home which was now to be so full of sorrow.
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Rudy |  |  |  | evening | with the fatal news to that home; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | that home |  |  |  | now | of sorrow; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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