Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 109

It struck twelve in the town, and before the last stroke had died away, the man was out in the yard, out in the garden, and stood in the meadow.

Who acts: moon, man · What happens: strike, die away, be, stand · To what, where: twelve, town, meadow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, man), 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	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 struck	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 died	cc
9	before	before	ADP	_	12 stroke	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stroke	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stroke	amod
12	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	obl
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 died	aux
14	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 struck	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 died	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 out	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 out	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 out	cop
20	out	out	ADV	_	2 struck	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 yard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 yard	det
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 out	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 garden	punct
25	out	out	ADV	_	28 garden	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 garden	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 garden	det
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 meadow	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 meadow	det
34	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	moon	twelve	the town			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	die away	past · perfect	moon not said here			before the last stroke	away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	the man				in the yard; out property	tree rules
4	stand	past	moon not said here		the meadow			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=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.

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