Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 137

Dark days, heavy trials, with poverty at the door, came rolling into the house upon them like the waves of the sea.

Who acts: Dark days · What happens: come, roll, wave · To what, where: house, sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dark days), 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	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trials	punct
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trials	amod
5	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 poverty	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 poverty	case
8	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poverty	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolling	obl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 waves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rolling	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waves	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Dark days and heavy trials				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll	gerund	Dark days and heavy trials not said here		the house upon trials	like the waves of the sea	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination
3	wave			the sea			nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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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