Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 95

Oh, how dark and disagreeable it was as he sat there, and the people said to him, "To-morrow you will be hanged."

Who acts: flour, people · What happens: be, say, hange · To what, where: soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flour, people), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 disagreeable	cc
6	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dark	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	cop
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sat	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hanged	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 hanged	punct
22	To	to	ADP	_	24 morrow	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 To	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hanged	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 hanged	nsubj:pass
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hanged	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 hanged	aux:pass
28	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	flour			there	sit property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the people		soldier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	hange in a quote	future · passive		soldier			to morrow	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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