The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 20

A dreadful storm came on, in which he lost his way, and before he could get on to the right road night came on, and it was impossible to reach the town that evening.

Who acts: dreadful storm, storm, Klaus · What happens: come on, lose, get on, be, reach · To what, where: way, town

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful storm, storm, Klaus), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 get	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	advcl
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 night	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 night	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 night	amod
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 night	compound
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
26	on	on	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 impossible	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 impossible	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 impossible	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 impossible	cop
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 came	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 reach	mark
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 impossible	csubj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 town	det
35	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	obj
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 evening	det
37	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	a dreadful storm				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	storm	Klaus's way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	get on	could	Klaus		night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	come on	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
6	reach	to-infinitive		the town	evening		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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