The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 46

For there was a large and high hill outside the windows which overshadowed the palace so much that the sun could not shine in.

Who acts: large hill, sun · What happens: be, overshadow, not shine in · To what, where: palace

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (large hill, sun), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hill	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hill	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 high	cc
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 large	conj
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 windows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hill	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 overshadowed	nsubj
13	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hill	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 overshadowed	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	13 overshadowed	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 shine	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shine	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 shine	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 shine	advmod
23	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 overshadowed	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	23 shine	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a large hill outside the windows		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	overshadow	past	a large hill outside the windows	the palace		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent palace=Patient
3	not shine in	could	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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