Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 49

"It looks very dark," said she; still she went in with him through the stove and through the pipe, where it was as dark as pitch.

Who acts: door, wife · What happens: look, say, go in, be · To what, where: stove · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, wife), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	still	still	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 stove	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stove	det
19	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pipe	cc
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 pipe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pipe	det
23	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stove	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dark	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 dark	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dark	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dark	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 dark	advmod
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stove	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 pitch	case
31	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dark	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	door			dark property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in	past	wife	the stove and the pipe	still	with two	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through stove=Initial_Location
4	is	past	door			as pitch; 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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