Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 84

He was looking into the housekeeper's room on the lower storey; where the stove stood on its four iron legs, looking about the same size as the Snow Man himself. "

Who acts: Man, stove · What happens: look, stand · To what, where: four iron legs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, stove), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 housekeeper	det
6	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 housekeeper	case
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 storey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storey	det
11	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 storey	amod
12	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 stood	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stove	det
16	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 legs	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 legs	nummod
21	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 legs	compound
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stood	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stood	advcl
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 size	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 size	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 size	amod
28	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 Man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Man	det
31	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Man	compound
32	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 Man	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Man		on the lower storey; into the housekeeper's room	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=Theme
2	stand	past	the stove	stove's four iron legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
3	look	gerund	the stove not said here		about the same size; as the Snow Man Man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about size=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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