Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 111

“You always sat and looked over to the antechamber.

Who acts: You · What happens: sit, look over

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	6 looked	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 antechamber	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 antechamber	det
10	antechamber	antechamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	You					always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look over in a quote	past	You not said here					to the antechamber	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to antechamber=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: «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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