Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 111

Was it there like a cool grove, or like a holy temple?

Who acts: scholar · What happens: be

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 (scholar), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 there	nsubj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 grove	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grove	det
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grove	amod
7	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 there	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 temple	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 temple	cc
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 temple	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 temple	det
12	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 temple	amod
13	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grove	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	scholar					like a cool grove or a holy temple; there 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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