Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 8

There was a lamp burning, but the walls were so black that they only looked the blacker for it.

Who acts: lamp, walls · What happens: be, burn, look

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, walls), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lamp	det
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lamp	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 black	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 black	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 black	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 black	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 black	advmod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 looked	advmod
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 black	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 blacker	det
18	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 looked	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 blacker	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a lamp	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	gerund	a lamp not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the walls		black property	tree rules
4	look	past	walls = wall		black property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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