Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 2

As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose without, and the rain streamed down from heaven; but the old poet sat warm and comfortable in his chimney-corner, where the fire blazed and the roasting apple hissed.

Who acts: he, dreadful storm, old poet, fire, roasting apple · What happens: sit, arise, stream down, blaze, roast, hiss · To what, where: room, rain, heaven, chimney corner

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, dreadful storm, old poet, fire), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 arose	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 evening	nummod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 storm	det
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 storm	amod
13	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arose	nsubj
14	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	without	without	ADP	_	14 arose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rain	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rain	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rain	det
19	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arose	obl
20	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rain	acl
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 streamed	compound:prt
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 heaven	case
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 streamed	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 poet	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 poet	amod
28	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	nsubj
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arose	parataxis
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sat	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 comfortable	cc
32	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 warm	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 corner	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 corner	nmod:poss
35	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 corner	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 chimney	punct
37	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 blazed	punct
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 blazed	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fire	det
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 blazed	nsubj
42	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sat	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 hissed	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 apple	det
45	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 apple	amod
46	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hissed	nsubj
47	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 blazed	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	he		his room	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	arise	past	a dreadful storm	the rain				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stream down	participle		the rain not said here	heaven			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from heaven=Source
4	sit	past	the old poet		storm's chimney corner		warm property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	blaze	past	the fire					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	roast	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	hiss	past	the roasting apple					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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