Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 185

In the little corner, where his bed lay, he was over-shadowed as it were by perpetual night.

Who acts: bed · What happens: lie, over-shadow, be · To what, where: weather, little corner

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corner	amod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 over-shadowed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 corner	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lay	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 over-shadowed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 over-shadowed	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 over-shadowed	aux:pass
13	over-shadowed	over-shadow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	as	as	ADP	_	19 night	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 night	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 night	cop
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 night	amod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 over-shadowed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 over-shadowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past	weather's bed				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	over-shadow	past · passive		weather	the little corner		tree rules
3	is	past	bed			as perpetual night	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: «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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