Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 90

Later on the air became clearer, but the storm swept over the perturbed sea with undiminished fury; the fisher folks had long since gone to bed, but in such weather there was no chance of closing an eye.

Who acts: air, storm, fisher folks, chance · What happens: become, sweep, perturb, have, go, be · To what, where: perturbed sea, bed, such weather, eye

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 (air, storm, fisher folks, chance), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 became	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 air	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swept	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 swept	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storm	det
10	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swept	nsubj
11	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
14	perturbed	perturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sea	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swept	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 fury	case
17	undiminished	undiminished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fury	amod
18	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swept	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 folks	det
21	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 folks	compound
22	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 had	advmod
25	since	since	ADV	_	26 gone	advmod
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 had	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bed	case
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 was	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 weather	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 weather	amod
33	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 was	obl
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 chance	det
37	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 was	nsubj
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 closing	mark
39	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 chance	acl
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 eye	det
41	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 closing	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the air			clear, late property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sweep	past	the storm		the perturbed sea	with undiminished fury	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory
3	perturb	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	the fisher folks			long property	tree rules
5	go	participle	the fisher folks not said here		bed	since property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
6	be	past	no chance		such weather; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location
7	close	gerund	no chance not said here	a eye			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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