Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 39

Often, when it was dark night outside, with rain or snow falling, the place looked quite deserted and gloomy.

Who acts: stranger, rain · What happens: be, fall, desert · To what, where: dark night, place

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 (stranger, rain), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Often	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 night	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 night	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 night	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 deserted	obl
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rain	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 rain	case
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 night	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 snow	cc
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rain	conj
14	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 rain	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 deserted	nsubj:pass
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 deserted	aux:pass
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 deserted	advmod
20	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gloomy	cc
22	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 deserted	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 deserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	stranger	dark night and rain or snow	often, outside property	tree rules
2	fall	gerund	rain or snow not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	desert	past · passive		the place		vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source

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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