Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 7

Oh, how dark and comfortless it was in the dreary world!

Who acts: fog · What happens: be · To what, where: dreary world

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fog), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 comfortless	cc
6	comfortless	comfortless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dark	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 world	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 world	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fog			the dreary world			tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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