Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 5

The days grew shorter and more gloomy, and, dark as it was out of doors in the open air, it was still darker within the small, old-fashioned houses of the village.

Who acts: days, town · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: open air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, 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	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gloomy	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 gloomy	advmod
7	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shorter	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dark	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	17 doors	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 doors	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doors	cop
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 doors	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 doors	case
17	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dark	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 air	amod
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 doors	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 darker	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 darker	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 darker	cop
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 darker	advmod
26	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	conj
27	within	within	ADP	_	34 houses	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 houses	det
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 houses	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 small	punct
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fashioned	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 old	punct
33	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 houses	amod
34	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 darker	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 village	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 village	det
37	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 houses	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the days			short property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	town	the open air		as doors	tree rules
3	is	past	town		still	within the small fashioned houses of the village; dark property	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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