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title: It was the evening twilight; when this hour arrived she became quiet… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the evening twilight; when this hour arrived she became quiet and thoughtful, and allowed herself to be advised and led; then also a secret feeling seemed to draw her towards her mother. Who acts: check, hour, Helga, secret feeling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 30

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It was the evening twilight; when this hour arrived she became quiet and thoughtful, and allowed herself to be advised and led; then also a secret feeling seemed to draw her towards her mother.

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**Who acts:** check, hour, Helga, secret feeling · **What happens:** be, arrive, become, allow, advise, lead · **To what, where:** evening twilight, Helga

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (check, hour, Helga, secret feeling), 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:pg27200:85:30
# text = It was the evening twilight; when this hour arrived she became quiet and thoughtful, and allowed herself to be advised and led; then also a secret feeling seemed to draw her towards her mother.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | check | the evening twilight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | this hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | Helga |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **allow** | past | this hour *not said here* | Helga |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer herself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **advise** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Helga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» |
| 6 | **lead** | participle | Helga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 7 | **seem** | past | a secret feeling | the evening twilight *not said here* |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **draw** | to-infinitive | a secret feeling *not said here* | Helga |  |  |  | towards Helga's mother | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme towards mother=Destination |

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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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