Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 64

The leaves were falling from the trees; and, by the time he arrived at his new master's in the great metropolis, he was wet through.

Who acts: leaves, nearer, new master · What happens: fall, arrive, be · To what, where: trees, time, great metropolis

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (leaves, nearer, new master), 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 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 falling	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	aux
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 falling	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 wet	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wet	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wet	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 arrived	nsubj
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 time	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	24 metropolis	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 master	nmod:poss
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 master	amod
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 metropolis	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 metropolis	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 metropolis	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 metropolis	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 metropolis	amod
24	metropolis	metropolis	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wet	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wet	cop
28	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 falling	parataxis
29	through	through	ADV	_	28 wet	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	the leaves		the trees			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
2	arrive	past	nearer = near	the time not said here				tree rules
3	is	present	nearer's new master		the great metropolis			tree rules
4	is	past	nearer = near			time	through, wet property	tree rules

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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