Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 57

But the outfit met with contrary winds, or with no winds at all, for four months passed before it arrived; and when it came, my Lady Gyldenlowe was gone.

Who acts: outfit, Lady · What happens: meet, pass, arrive, come, be · To what, where: four months

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outfit, Lady), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 met	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outfit	det
3	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 winds	case
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 winds	amod
7	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 met	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 winds	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 winds	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 winds	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 winds	det
12	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 winds	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 winds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 months	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 months	case
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 months	nummod
18	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 winds	conj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 months	acl
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 arrived	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 arrived	nsubj
22	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 passed	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gone	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Lady	nmod:poss
30	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 gone	nsubj
31	Gyldenlowe	Gyldenlowe	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Lady	flat
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	cop
33	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the outfit		with contrary winds or no winds at all and four months	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wind=Co-Agent
2	pass	participle		four months not said here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arrive	past	outfit			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	outfit			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	my Lady		gone property	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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