Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 51

Towards evening, the weather became very stormy, and he hastened on as quickly as he could, to get shelter; but it was quite dark by the time he reached a little lonely church which stood on a hill. "

Who acts: weather, shelter, little lonely church · What happens: become, hasten on, get, be, reach, stand · To what, where: shelter, little lonely church, hill

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 (weather, shelter, little lonely church), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weather	det
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 stormy	advmod
8	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hastened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hastened	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hastened	nsubj
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 hastened	compound:prt
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 quickly	advmod
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 hastened	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 quickly	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hastened	advcl
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 dark	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 dark	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dark	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dark	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 dark	advmod
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dark	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reached	nsubj
33	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 time	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 church	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 church	amod
36	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 church	amod
37	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reached	obj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 stood	nsubj
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 church	acl:relcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 hill	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hill	det
42	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 dark	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the weather			evening	stormy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hasten on	past	weather				quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	to-infinitive	weather not said here	shelter				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shelter=Stimulus
4	is	past	shelter			time	dark property	tree rules
5	reach	past	weather	a little lonely church				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent church=Theme
6	stand	past	a little lonely church		a hill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=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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