Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 35

The old clerks of Hauschen Street very seldom met together; each one remained in his own booth, which was closed early enough in the evening, and then it looked dark and dismal out in the street.

Who acts: old clerks, town · What happens: meet, remain, close, look out · To what, where: one, own booth, street

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 (old clerks, town), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clerks	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clerks	amod
3	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 met	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Street	case
5	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Street	compound
6	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clerks	nmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	9 met	advmod
8	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	9 met	advmod
9	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 met	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 closed	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 closed	nsubj:pass
14	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 one	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 booth	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 booth	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 booth	amod
18	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remained	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 closed	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 closed	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 closed	aux:pass
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 met	conj
23	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 closed	advmod
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 early	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 evening	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 evening	det
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 closed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 looked	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 looked	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 looked	nsubj
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 met	conj
33	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 looked	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dismal	cc
35	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dark	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	32 looked	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 street	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 street	det
39	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looked	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	participle	the old clerks of Hauschen Street				seldom, together property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remain	participle		each one not said here	Anthony's own booth			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=Location
3	close	past · passive		each one		evening	early property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	look out	past	town		the street	then	dark property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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