Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 2
I looked down between the bare rafters and through the open loft into the comfortless space below.
Who acts: I · What happens: look down · To what, where: comfortless space
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 rafters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rafters | det |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rafters | amod |
| 7 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 loft | cc |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 loft | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loft | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 loft | amod |
| 12 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rafters | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 space | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 space | det |
| 15 | comfortless | comfortless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 space | amod |
| 16 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 17 | below | below | ADV | _ | 16 space | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | I | the comfortless space | between the bare rafters and the open loft; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between rafter=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: «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.
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