Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 9

Alas, poor doll! it began to grow dark already; and suppose night were to come on completely!

Who acts: poor doll · What happens: begin, grow, suppose, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor doll), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 doll	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 doll	amod
4	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 doll	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grow	mark
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grow	xcomp
11	already	already	ADV	_	10 dark	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 suppose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 suppose	cc
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl:unmarked
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 suppose	ccomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 completely	case
20	completely	completely	ADV	_	18 come	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	poor doll			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	to-infinitive	poor doll not said here		dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	suppose	infinitive				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	come	past		night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on completely=Location

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: «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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