Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 2

For more than a year one of these ships had been pushing its way northward, amid snow and ice, and the sailors had endured many hardships; till at length winter set in, and the sun entirely disappeared; for many weeks there would be constant night.

Who acts: sailors, sun · What happens: push, endure, set in, disappear, be · To what, where: way, many hardships, length winter, constant night

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, sun), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 one	case
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 one	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	compound
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ships	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 ships	det
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pushing	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 pushing	aux
12	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushing	obj
15	northward	northward	ADV	_	12 pushing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 snow	punct
17	amid	amid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 snow	amod
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushing	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ice	cc
20	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 snow	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 endured	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 endured	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sailors	det
24	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 endured	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 endured	aux
26	endured	endure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 pushing	conj
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hardships	amod
28	hardships	hardship	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 endured	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 endured	punct
30	till	till	ADP	_	33 winter	case
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 winter	case
32	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 winter	compound
33	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 endured	obl
34	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 winter	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	34 set	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 disappeared	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 disappeared	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun	det
39	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 disappeared	nsubj
40	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	41 disappeared	advmod
41	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pushing	parataxis
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 weeks	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 weeks	case
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 weeks	amod
45	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 night	obl
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 be	expl
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 be	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 night	cop
49	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 night	amod
50	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 disappeared	obl:unmarked
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pushing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	push	past · perfect · progressive		pole's way		for a year one of this ships; northward property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	endure	past · perfect	the sailors	many hardships	winter		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hardship=Circumstance
3	set in	participle		length winter not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	disappear	past	the sun			entirely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	infinitive		constant night	week		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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