Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 30

The first night after he came to the town had been signalized by the most terrible gale ever recorded in the newspapers--a gale such as none of the inhabitants had ever before experienced.

Who acts: grandpapa, terrible gale · What happens: come, signalize, record, have · To what, where: first night, terrible gale, newspapers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandpapa, terrible gale), 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	3 night	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 signalized	nsubj:pass
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 signalized	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 signalized	aux:pass
12	signalized	signalize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 gale	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gale	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 terrible	advmod
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gale	amod
17	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 signalized	obl
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 recorded	advmod
19	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 gale	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 newspapers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 newspapers	det
22	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 recorded	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 gale	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gale	det
25	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gale	conj
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	28 none	case
27	as	as	ADP	_	26 such	fixed
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 gale	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 inhabitants	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 inhabitants	det
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 none	nmod
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 none	acl
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 before	advmod
34	before	before	ADV	_	35 experienced	advmod
35	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 had	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 signalized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	grandpapa	the first night not said here			to the town	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme
2	signalize	past · perfect · passive	the terrible gale and a gale such none	the first night				tree rules
3	record	participle		the terrible gale and a gale such none not said here	the newspapers	ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in newspaper=Destination
4	have	past					experienced property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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