Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 91

But every evening after working hours--and they worked by candle-light then--he walked out into the town, and through the street in which Joanna lived, to look up at her window.

Who acts: tears, father, Joanna · What happens: work, walk out, live, look up · To what, where: town, street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (tears, father, Joanna), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 walked	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walked	obl:unmarked
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 evening	nmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 worked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 worked	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worked	nsubj
10	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 walked	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 light	case
12	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 candle	punct
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worked	obl
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 walked	advmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 walked	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lived	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lived	cc
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 street	det
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lived	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lived	obl
30	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 lived	nsubj
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 walked	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 look	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 lived	advcl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 look	compound:prt
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 window	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 window	nmod:poss
38	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work	past	tears = tear			by candle light	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk out	past	father	the town	then; evening	out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	live	past	Joanna	the street			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
5	look up	to-infinitive	Joanna not said here			at Joanna's window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=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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