The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 3

So once--it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn, and wild weather outside, terribly dark, and raining so heavily and blowing so hard that the walls of the cottage shook again--they were all sitting together by the fireside, each of them busy with something or other, when suddenly some one rapped three times against the window-pane.

Who acts: beauty, walls, one · What happens: be, rain, blow, shake, sit, rap · To what, where: window pane

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, walls, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 late	advmod
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 evening	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 evening	det
9	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 evening	compound
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 late	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 autumn	case
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evening	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weather	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 weather	cc
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weather	amod
16	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 late	conj
17	outside	outside	ADV	_	16 weather	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dark	punct
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	20 dark	advmod
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weather	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 raining	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 raining	cc
23	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 dark	parataxis
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 heavily	advmod
25	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	23 raining	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blowing	cc
27	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 raining	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 hard	advmod
29	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 blowing	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 shook	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 walls	det
32	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 shook	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cottage	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cottage	det
35	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 walls	nmod
36	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 blowing	advcl
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 shook	advmod
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 sitting	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 sitting	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sitting	aux
41	all	all	ADV	_	42 sitting	advmod
42	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 raining	conj
43	together	together	ADV	_	42 sitting	advmod
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 fireside	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fireside	det
46	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sitting	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 busy	punct
48	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	51 busy	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 each	nmod
51	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weather	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 something	case
53	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	51 busy	obl
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 other	cc
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 something	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 rapped	punct
57	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	61 rapped	advmod
58	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	61 rapped	advmod
59	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	60 one	det
60	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 rapped	nsubj
61	rapped	rap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 weather	conj
62	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 times	nummod
63	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 rapped	obl:unmarked
64	against	against	ADP	_	68 pane	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 pane	det
66	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 pane	compound
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 window	punct
68	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 rapped	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	beauty		evening	late, once property	tree rules
2	rain	gerund				heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	blow	gerund				hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	shake	past	the walls of the cottage		again		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	sit	past · progressive	walls = wall			by the fireside; all, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location
6	rap	past	some one	the window pane	time	suddenly property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pane=Location

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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