The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 36

For a few days the wind was fair, and everything seemed going smoothly; then, suddenly, a gale sprang up, and a fearful storm of thunder and lightning, such as had never happened within the memory of man.

Who acts: wind, everything, gale, thunder · What happens: be, seem, go, spring up, not happen, storm

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, everything, gale, thunder), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fair	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fair	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	cop
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	csubj
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 seemed	xcomp
14	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sprang	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sprang	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 then	punct
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 sprang	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 suddenly	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gale	det
21	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprang	nsubj
22	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 sprang	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 storm	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 storm	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 storm	det
27	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 storm	amod
28	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fair	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 thunder	case
30	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 storm	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lightning	cc
32	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 storm	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 happened	punct
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	38 happened	mark
35	as	as	ADP	_	34 such	fixed
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 happened	aux
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 happened	advmod
38	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 storm	conj
39	within	within	ADP	_	41 memory	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 memory	det
41	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 happened	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 man	case
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 memory	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind	day	fair property	tree rules
2	seem	past	everything			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	go	gerund	everything not said here		smoothly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring up	past	a gale	then	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not happen	past · perfect	the wind not said here		within the memory of man	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	storm		thunder			nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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