Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 89

It was dark, but about midnight the moon would rise.

Who acts: wind, moon · What happens: be, rise

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, moon), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rise	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 rise	cc
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 midnight	case
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rise	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rise	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rise	aux
11	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dark	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wind					dark property	tree rules
2	rise	would	the moon				midnight		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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