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title: When the sun was near setting, and the evening's twilight about to c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When the sun was near setting, and the evening's twilight about to commence, the approaching transformation aroused her to fresh exertion. Who acts: sun, approaching transformation. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 71

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When the sun was near setting, and the evening's twilight about to commence, the approaching transformation aroused her to fresh exertion.

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**Who acts:** sun, approaching transformation · **What happens:** be, commence, approach, arouse · **To what, where:** setting, flock

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, approaching transformation), 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:pg27200:86:71
# text = When the sun was near setting, and the evening's twilight about to commence, the approaching transformation aroused her to fresh exertion.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	commence	commence	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	exertion	exertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | the sun |  |  | setting |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **commence** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **arouse** | past | the approaching transformation | flock |  |  |  | to fresh exertion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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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