Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 153

It was only another storey over him, but that was "something," Now he was dead, like the three other brothers.

Who acts: monument, that, widow · What happens: be · To what, where: storey, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monument, that, widow), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 storey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 storey	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 storey	advmod
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 storey	det
5	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 storey	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 something	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 something	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 something	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 something	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 something	punct
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 storey	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dead	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 dead	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 dead	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dead	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dead	cop
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brothers	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	25 brothers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brothers	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 brothers	nummod
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brothers	amod
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dead	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 storey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	monument	another storey		over widow	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	that	something			tree rules
3	is	past	widow		now	dead 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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