Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 48

As he went through the streets at a quick pace, he passed the house where she used to live; it was all dark, empty, and lonely.

Who acts: Knud, room, house · What happens: go, pass, use, live, be · To what, where: streets, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, room, house), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	advcl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 streets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 streets	det
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 pace	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pace	det
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pace	amod
10	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 used	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 used	nsubj
18	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 house	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 live	mark
20	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 used	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 empty	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 empty	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 empty	cop
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 empty	nsubj
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 empty	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dark	punct
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 passed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lonely	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lonely	cc
30	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 empty	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Knud		the streets	at a quick pace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
2	pass	past	Knud	the house			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
3	use	past	room				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	live	to-infinitive	room not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	house			empty property	tree rules
6	be		house not said here				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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