Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 103

The journey had been so fatiguing that John and his fellow-traveller stopped to rest at a roadside inn, so that they might gain strength for their journey on the morrow.

Who acts: journey, John, clouds · What happens: fatigue, stop, rest, gain, journey · To what, where: roadside inn, strength, morrow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, John, clouds), 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 journey	det
2	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fatiguing	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fatiguing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fatiguing	aux
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fatiguing	advmod
6	fatiguing	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 stopped	mark
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 traveller	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 traveller	nmod:poss
11	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 traveller	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 fellow	punct
13	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 John	conj
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fatiguing	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rest	mark
16	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopped	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 inn	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 inn	det
19	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 inn	compound
20	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gain	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 gain	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gain	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 gain	aux
26	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fatiguing	parataxis
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gain	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 journey	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 journey	nmod:poss
30	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gain	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 morrow	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 morrow	det
33	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 journey	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fatiguing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fatigue	past · perfect · progressive	the journey				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	past	John and John's fellow traveller				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	rest	to-infinitive	John and John's fellow traveller not said here		a roadside inn		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location
4	gain	might	clouds = cloud	strength		for clouds's journey on the morrow	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent strength=Theme for journey=Source
5	journey		clouds = cloud		the morrow		nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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