Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 23

The way to the harbour was long; and weary and overcome with various emotions, he rested for a few moments before a splendid house, with marble pillars, statues, and broad steps.

Who acts: way, quantity · What happens: be, overcome, rest · To what, where: broad steps, splendid house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, quantity), 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 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 harbour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harbour	det
5	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 weary	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 weary	cc
10	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 long	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 overcome	cc
12	overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 emotions	case
14	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 emotions	amod
15	emotions	emotion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 overcome	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rested	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rested	nsubj
18	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 long	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 moments	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moments	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moments	amod
22	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rested	obl
23	before	before	ADP	_	26 house	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 house	det
25	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rested	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pillars	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 pillars	case
29	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pillars	compound
30	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 house	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 statues	punct
32	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pillars	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 steps	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 steps	cc
35	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 steps	amod
36	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rested	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the way to the harbour				long property	tree rules
2	be		the way to the harbour not said here					tree rules
3	overcome	present	the way to the harbour not said here				with various emotions	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	rest	past	quantity	broad steps	a splendid house	moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent before house=Location

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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