Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 7

So one evening I sat at the window, in a desponding mood; and presently I opened the casement and looked out.

Who acts: I · What happens: sit, despond, open, look out · To what, where: window, casement

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mood	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 mood	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mood	det
12	desponding	despond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 mood	amod
13	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 opened	cc
16	presently	presently	ADV	_	18 opened	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 casement	det
20	casement	casement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 looked	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I		the window	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	despond	gerund						tree rules
3	open	past	I	the casement			presently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location casement=Theme
4	look out	past	I not said here					vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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