Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 49

It was a terrible night, and in the morning--only think!--nearly all the shields had changed places.

Who acts: storm, shields · What happens: be, think, change · To what, where: terrible night, places · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (storm, shields), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 think	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 morning	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 night	advcl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 changed	punct
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 changed	advmod
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 shields	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shields	det
19	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 changed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 changed	aux
21	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 think	ccomp
22	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 changed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	storm	a terrible night			tree rules
2	think speech: other	infinitive	storm not said here		morning		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	change	past · perfect	all shields	places		nearly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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