The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 63

Oh! how dark it was inside, even darker than in the tunnel, and it was really very close quarters!

Who acts: Death · What happens: be · To what, where: close quarters

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dark	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 inside	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inside	cop
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 dark	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 darker	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 darker	advmod
10	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 dark	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 tunnel	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tunnel	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tunnel	det
14	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 darker	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 quarters	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 quarters	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 quarters	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 quarters	cop
19	really	really	ADV	_	22 quarters	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 close	advmod
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 quarters	amod
22	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dark	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Death					inside property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Death	close quarters					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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