Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 61

And many a night he had to sleep under the open sky, wet through with the driving rain or the falling mist; but his good humor never forsook him.

Who acts: canteen, good humor · What happens: have, sleep, fall, not forsake, humor · To what, where: open sky, canteen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canteen, good humor), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 many	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 many	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sky	amod
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wet	punct
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sky	amod
15	through	through	ADV	_	14 wet	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 rain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rain	det
18	driving	driving	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rain	compound
19	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wet	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 mist	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mist	det
22	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 mist	amod
23	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rain	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 forsook	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 forsook	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 humor	nmod:poss
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 humor	amod
28	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 forsook	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 forsook	advmod
30	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 many	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forsook	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 many	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	canteen			night	tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	canteen not said here		the open sky		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not forsake	past	canteen's good humor	canteen			tree rules
5	humor		canteen				nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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