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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 30

It grew dark, and as night was coming on I found a lodging in an old tower, where dwelt a watchman and an owl.

Who acts: object, night, I · What happens: grow, come, find, dwell · To what, where: lodging, old tower, watchman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object, night, I), 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

nsubjxcomppunctccmarknsubjauxadvclmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodacl:relcldetobjccdetconjpunctrootItPRONgrewVERBdarkADJ,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJnightNOUNwasAUXcomingVERBonSCONJIPRONfoundVERBaDETlodgingNOUNinADPanDEToldADJtowerNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVdweltVERBaDETwatchmanNOUNandCCONJanDETowlNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 grewnsubj
2grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3darkdarkADJDegree=Pos2 grewxcomp
4,,PUNCT_9 comingpunct
5andandCCONJ_9 comingcc
6asasSCONJ_9 comingmark
7nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing9 comingnsubj
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 comingaux
9comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 grewadvcl
10ononSCONJ_12 foundmark
11IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 foundnsubj
12foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 comingadvcl
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 lodgingdet
14lodginglodgingNOUNNumber=Sing12 foundobj
15ininADP_18 towercase
16anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 towerdet
17oldoldADJDegree=Pos18 toweramod
18towertowerNOUNNumber=Sing12 foundobl
19,,PUNCT_21 dweltpunct
20wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 dweltadvmod
21dweltdwellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 toweracl:relcl
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 watchmandet
23watchmanwatchmanNOUNNumber=Sing21 dweltobj
24andandCCONJ_26 owlcc
25anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 owldet
26owlowlNOUNNumber=Sing23 watchmanconj
27..PUNCT_2 grewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1growpastobjectdark propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2comepast · progressivenightvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3findpastIa lodginga old towervn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic
4dwellparticiplea watchman and a owlvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme watchman=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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