Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 2

John sat alone with the sick man in the little room, and the lamp had nearly burnt out; for it was late in the night.

Who acts: John, lamp · What happens: sit, burnt out, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, lamp), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burnt	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 burnt	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lamp	det
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burnt	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 burnt	aux
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 burnt	advmod
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 burnt	compound:prt
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 late	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 late	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 late	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 late	cop
24	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 night	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 late	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	John		with the sick man in the little room; alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burnt out	past · perfect	the lamp		nearly property	tree rules
3	is	past	lamp	night	late 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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