Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 53

The wind could also describe the pale fugitive, who, for weeks and months, lay in a wretched little road-side inn, where the landlord got drunk and raved, and where the merry-makers had it all their own way.

Who acts: wind, landlord, merry makers · What happens: describe, lay, get, rave, have · To what, where: pale fugitive, wretched little road side inn, landlord

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, landlord, merry makers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describe	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 describe	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 describe	advmod
5	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fugitive	det
7	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fugitive	amod
8	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describe	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weeks	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 weeks	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weeks	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fugitive	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 months	cc
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 weeks	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 describe	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	25 inn	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 inn	det
20	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 inn	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 inn	amod
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 inn	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 road	punct
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 inn	compound
25	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 got	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 landlord	det
29	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 inn	conj
31	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 got	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 raved	cc
33	raved	rave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 drunk	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 had	cc
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 had	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 makers	det
38	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 makers	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 merry	punct
40	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 describe	advcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	obj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 way	det:predet
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 way	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 way	amod
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 describe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	could	the wind	the pale fugitive			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme
2	lay	present	the wind not said here		a wretched little road side inn		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in inn=Destination
3	get	past	the landlord			drunk property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	rave speech: other	participle	the landlord not said here				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	the merry makers	landlord			tree rules

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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