Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 86

She called out, and no one heard her; she looked down into the tier of boxes below her, and it was empty, and low, and looked quite near, and aunt in her terror felt quite young and light.

Who acts: aunt, one, partition · What happens: call out, hear, look down, be, look, feel · To what, where: aunt

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 (aunt, one, partition), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heard	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 tier	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tier	det
16	tier	tier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 boxes	case
18	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tier	nmod
19	below	below	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 boxes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 empty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 empty	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 empty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 empty	cop
25	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 low	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 low	cc
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 empty	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 near	advmod
33	near	near	ADV	_	31 looked	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 felt	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 felt	cc
36	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 felt	nsubj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 terror	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 terror	nmod:poss
39	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 aunt	nmod
40	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
41	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 young	advmod
42	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 felt	advcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 light	cc
44	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 young	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	aunt			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	no one	aunt		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	look down	past	aunt		into the tier of boxes below heedlessness; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into tier=Theme
4	is	past	partition		empty property	tree rules
5	be		partition not said here			tree rules
6	look	past	aunt not said here		near property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	feel	past	aunt in aunt's terror			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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