Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 100

You still sat opposite to me, looking into the room.

Who acts: You · What happens: sit, look

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 opposite	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	You				still	opposite property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	You not said here					into the room	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=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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