Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 53

So he went in, and seated himself; then he folded his hands, and offered up his evening prayer, and was soon fast asleep and dreaming, while the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed without.

Who acts: weather, thunder, lightning · What happens: go in, seat, fold, offer up, be, dream · To what, where: weather, hands, evening prayer

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, thunder, lightning), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seated	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seated	cc
7	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 seated	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 folded	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 folded	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 folded	nsubj
12	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 folded	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 offered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 offered	cc
17	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 folded	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 offered	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 prayer	nmod:poss
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prayer	compound
21	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 offered	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asleep	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asleep	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asleep	cop
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 fast	advmod
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 asleep	advmod
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dreaming	cc
29	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 asleep	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rolled	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 rolled	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thunder	det
33	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rolled	nsubj
34	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flashed	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lightning	det
37	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flashed	nsubj
38	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 rolled	conj
39	without	without	ADP	_	38 flashed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in	past	weather				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seat	past	weather not said here	weather			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	fold	past	weather	weather's hands	then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	offer up	participle	weather not said here	weather's evening prayer			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
5	is	past				asleep, fast property	tree rules
6	dream	gerund					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	roll	past	the thunder				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	flash	past	the lightning				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	pray		weather				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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