Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 19

Presently a storm arose, and he lost his way, and before he discovered the right path, evening came on, and it was still a long way to the town, and too far to return home before night.

Who acts: storm, Claus, evening, way · What happens: arise, lose, discover, come on, be, return · To what, where: way, right path, long way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, Claus, evening, way), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 arose	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	nsubj
4	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lost	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lost	nsubj
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arose	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 discovered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 discovered	cc
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 discovered	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 discovered	nsubj
15	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arose	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 path	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 path	amod
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 discovered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 discovered	conj
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 way	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 way	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 way	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 way	cop
27	still	still	ADV	_	30 way	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 town	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 town	det
33	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 return	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 return	cc
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 far	advmod
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 return	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 return	mark
39	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arose	advcl
40	home	home	ADV	_	39 return	advmod
41	before	before	ADP	_	42 night	case
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 return	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	a storm			presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	storm	Claus's way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	discover	past	Claus	the right path			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
4	come on	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	way	a long way	still	to the town	tree rules
6	return	to-infinitive	a storm not said here		night	far, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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