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title: It was early in the afternoon, and just at dinner-time, when the thr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was early in the afternoon, and just at dinner-time, when the three joyous travellers reached Villeneuve. Who acts: It, three joyous travellers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 1

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It was early in the afternoon, and just at dinner-time, when the three joyous travellers reached Villeneuve.

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**Who acts:** It, three joyous travellers · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** Villeneuve

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, three joyous travellers), 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:pg27200:66:1
# text = It was early in the afternoon, and just at dinner-time, when the three joyous travellers reached Villeneuve.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	Villeneuve	Villeneuve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | in the afternoon; early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the three joyous travellers | Villeneuve |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent villeneuve=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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