Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 32

It was a very dark night, and so stormy that the tiles flew from the roofs of the houses, and the trees in the garden upon which the skeletons hung bent themselves like reeds before the wind.

Who acts: rod, tiles · What happens: be, fly, bend · To what, where: dark night, roofs, skeletons

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rod, tiles), 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	6 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stormy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stormy	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 stormy	advmod
10	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tiles	det
13	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stormy	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 roofs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roofs	det
17	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 houses	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 houses	det
20	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 roofs	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trees	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 trees	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 night	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 garden	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trees	nmod
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bent	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 skeletons	det
31	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bent	nsubj:pass
32	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bent	aux:pass
33	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 trees	acl
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 bent	obj
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 reeds	case
36	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bent	obl
37	before	before	ADP	_	39 wind	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wind	det
39	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bent	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	rod	a dark night			the trees in the garden nmod	tree rules
2	be		rod not said here					tree rules
3	fly	past	the tiles		the roofs of the houses			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from roof=Trajectory
4	bend	past · passive		the skeletons		before the wind	upon the trees in the garden; like reeds	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient themselves=Result

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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