Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 2

One evening, as he was sitting at home, there was a terrible storm going on outside; the rain was pouring down, but the old poet sat comfortably in his chimney-corner, where the fire was burning and the apples were roasting.

Who acts: poet, terrible storm, rain, old poet, fire, apples · What happens: sit, be, go on, pour down, burn, roast · To what, where: home, chimney corner

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, terrible storm, rain, old poet), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sitting	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 storm	det
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 storm	amod
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 storm	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 going	compound:prt
18	outside	outside	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pouring	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rain	det
21	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pouring	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pouring	aux
23	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 pouring	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 poet	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 poet	amod
29	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	parataxis
31	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 corner	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 corner	nmod:poss
34	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 corner	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 chimney	punct
36	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 burning	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 burning	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 burning	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 burning	aux
42	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 corner	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 roasting	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 apples	det
45	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 roasting	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 roasting	aux
47	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 burning	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	poet	home	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
2	be	past	a terrible storm	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	gerund	a terrible storm not said here			outside property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pour down	past · progressive	the rain				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	sit	past	the old poet	poet's chimney corner		comfortably property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
6	burn	past · progressive	the fire				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	roast	past · progressive	the apples				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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