Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 36

He was still sitting under the willow-tree in a strange land, on a cold winter evening, with snow and hail falling from the clouds, and beating upon his face.

Who acts: Joanna, hail · What happens: sit, fall, beat · To what, where: willow tree, clouds, face

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (Joanna, hail), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	9 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 willow	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 land	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 land	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 land	amod
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 evening	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 evening	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 evening	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 evening	amod
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 evening	compound
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 snow	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 snow	case
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hail	cc
24	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 snow	conj
25	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 hail	acl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 clouds	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 clouds	det
28	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 falling	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beating	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beating	cc
31	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sitting	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 face	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 face	nmod:poss
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beating	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Joanna	the willow tree in a strange land	still; evening	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	fall	gerund	hail not said here	the clouds		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Initial_Location
3	beat	gerund	Joanna not said here	Joanna's face		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon face=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/36/