Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 22

Darkness came on, the rain fell, and then it began to snow, and the whiteness dazzled the eyes.

Who acts: Darkness, rain, whiteness · What happens: come on, fall, begin, dazzle · To what, where: snow, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darkness, rain, whiteness), 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	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 began	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 snow	mark
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dazzled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dazzled	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 whiteness	det
18	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dazzled	nsubj
19	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eyes	det
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dazzled	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come on	past	Darkness			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the rain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	rain	snow	then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	dazzle	past	the whiteness	the eyes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer

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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