Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 112

There was no light; there was a sort of twilight, but the one door stood open directly opposite the other through a long row of rooms and saloons, and there it was lighted up.

Who acts: light, sort, one door · What happens: be, stand, light up, sort · To what, where: long row, sort, twilight

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, sort, one door), 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	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sort	det
9	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 twilight	case
11	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sort	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 door	nummod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stood	xcomp
19	directly	directly	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
20	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stood	obl
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 row	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 row	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 row	amod
26	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 rooms	case
28	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 row	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 saloons	cc
30	saloons	saloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rooms	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lighted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lighted	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 lighted	expl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lighted	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lighted	aux:pass
36	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 stood	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 lighted	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no light		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	a sort of twilight		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	the one door		a long row of rooms and saloons	opposite the other; directly, open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite other=Location
4	light up	past · passive		sort	there		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
5	sort			twilight			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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