--- title: Towards evening, the weather became very stormy, and he hastened on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Towards evening, the weather became very stormy, and he hastened on as quickly as he could, to get shelter; but it was quite dark by the time he reached a little lonely church which stood on a hill. " Who acts: weather, shelter, little lonely church. 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" **Who acts:** weather, shelter, little lonely church · **What happens:** become, hasten on, get, be, reach, stand · **To what, where:** shelter, little lonely church, hill This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, shelter, little lonely church), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:196:51 # text = Towards evening, the weather became very stormy, and he hastened on as quickly as he could, to get shelter; but it was quite dark by the time he reached a little lonely church which stood on a hill. " 1 Towards toward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 22 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the weather | | | | evening | stormy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **hasten on** | past | weather | | | | | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | weather *not said here* | shelter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shelter=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | past | shelter | | | | time | dark *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **reach** | past | weather | a little lonely church | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent church=Theme | | 6 | **stand** | past | a little lonely church | | | a hill | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/52/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/)