Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 96

He was so uneasy lest he should lose something of his splendor, that he was quite bewildered amidst the glare and brightness; when suddenly both folding-doors opened and a troop of children rushed in as if they would upset the Tree.

Who acts: Tree, folding doors, doors · What happens: be, lose, bewilder, open, rush in, upset · To what, where: something, Tree, children

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, folding doors, doors), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uneasy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uneasy	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 uneasy	advmod
4	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 lose	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 uneasy	advcl
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 lose	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 splendor	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 splendor	nmod:poss
12	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bewildered	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 bewildered	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bewildered	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bewildered	aux:pass
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 bewildered	advmod
18	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lose	conj
19	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	21 glare	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 glare	det
21	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bewildered	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 brightness	cc
23	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glare	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 opened	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 suddenly	advmod
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 opened	advmod
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	30 doors	det
28	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 doors	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 folding	punct
30	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 opened	nsubj
31	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uneasy	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 troop	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 troop	det
34	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opened	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 children	case
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 troop	nmod
37	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 children	acl
38	in	in	ADP	_	37 rushed	compound:prt
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 upset	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 upset	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 upset	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 upset	aux
43	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 rushed	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Tree	det
45	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 upset	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tree		uneasy property	tree rules
2	lose	should	Tree	something		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	bewilder	past · passive		Tree	amidst the glare and brightness	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	open	past	both folding doors		suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush in	participle		children not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	upset	would	doors = door	the Tree		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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