The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 122

There he sat. Oh, how dark and dull it was there!

Who acts: sat. · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sat.), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat.	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat.	nsubj
3	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	12 there	nsubj
4	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 dark	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dark	advmod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat.	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dull	cc
9	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dark	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 there	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 there	cop
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sat.					there 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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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