Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 6

At last the storm abated, and a narrow path was swept clean in front of the houses; when two persons met in this path they stood still, for neither liked to take the first step on one side into the deep snow to let the other pass him.

Who acts: two persons, persons, neither, other · What happens: abate, sweep, meet, stand, like, take · To what, where: last storm, narrow path, front, path, first step, one side

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two persons, persons, neither, other), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 storm	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storm	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abated	obl
5	abated	abate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swept	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 path	det
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 path	amod
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swept	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swept	aux:pass
12	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 abated	parataxis
13	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swept	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 front	case
15	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swept	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 houses	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 houses	det
18	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 front	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 met	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 met	mark
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 persons	nummod
22	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 met	nsubj
23	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 abated	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 path	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 path	det
26	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 met	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 path	acl:relcl
29	still	still	ADV	_	28 stood	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 liked	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 liked	mark
32	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	33 liked	nsubj
33	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 met	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 take	mark
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 liked	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 step	det
37	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 step	amod
38	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 side	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 side	nummod
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
42	into	into	ADP	_	45 snow	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 snow	det
44	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 snow	amod
45	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 let	mark
47	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 take	advcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 other	det
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 let	obj
50	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 let	xcomp
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 pass	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 abated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abate	past			the last storm			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sweep	past · passive		a narrow path	front of the houses		clean property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in front=Trajectory
3	meet	past	two persons		this path			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	persons = person	this path not said here		still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus
5	like	participle	neither					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	neither not said here	the first step	one side		into the deep snow	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme on side=Destination
7	let	to-infinitive	neither not said here	the other				tree rules
8	pass	infinitive	the other not said here	snow				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory

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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