Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 67

More than an hour elapsed before her two companions could obtain from the nearest house ropes and poles to assist in raising them; and it was with much exertion that they at last succeeded in raising from the crevasse what appeared to be two dead bodies.

Who acts: hour, groan, crevasse · What happens: elapse, obtain, assist, raise, be, succeed · To what, where: hour, nearest house ropes, poles, two dead bodies

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, groan, crevasse), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hour	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 hour	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obtain	nsubj
5	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hour	acl
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 companions	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 companions	nmod:poss
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 companions	nummod
9	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 elapsed	obl
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 obtain	aux
11	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 ropes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ropes	det
14	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 ropes	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ropes	compound
16	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 obtain	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poles	cc
18	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ropes	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 assist	mark
20	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 obtain	advcl
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 raising	mark
22	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 assist	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 raising	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 exertion	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 exertion	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 exertion	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 exertion	cop
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 exertion	case
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 exertion	amod
30	exertion	exertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obtain	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 they	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 exertion	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	37 raising	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 raising	amod
35	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 raising	amod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 raising	case
37	raising	raising	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 they	nmod
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 crevasse	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 crevasse	det
40	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 raising	nmod
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 appeared	nsubj
42	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 crevasse	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	47 bodies	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 bodies	cop
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 bodies	nummod
46	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bodies	amod
47	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 appeared	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 obtain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	participle		a hour not said here		before shriek's two companions		tree rules
2	obtain	could	a hour		the nearest house ropes and poles			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from rope=Source
3	assist	to-infinitive	a hour not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	raise	gerund	a hour not said here	poles = pole				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is	past	groan				with much exertion	tree rules
6	succeed	participle						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	appear	past	the crevasse					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	to-infinitive	the crevasse not said here	two dead bodies				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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