Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 44

One sat pretty much in the dark up there, and most people took their supper up with them.

Who acts: One, most people · What happens: sit, take up · To what, where: dark, supper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, most people), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 supper	nmod:poss
16	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	14 took	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	One			the dark; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location
2	take up	past	most people	people's supper				with flies = fly	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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