Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 13

It was dark all around, and hen sat close to hen, but the one who sat nearest to her merry neighbour did not sleep.

Who acts: doubt, hen, one · What happens: be, sit, not sleep · To what, where: nearest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, hen, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 around	advmod
5	around	around	ADV	_	3 dark	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	parataxis
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sat	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 hen	case
12	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sleep	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 sleep	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	acl:relcl
19	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 sat	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 neighbour	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neighbour	nmod:poss
22	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 neighbour	amod
23	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sleep	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 sleep	advmod
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sat	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	doubt		around, dark property	tree rules
2	sit	past	hen		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	the one	nearest	to hen's merry neighbour	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location near=Theme
4	not sleep	past · do-support	the one			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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