Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 12
The door opposite was also opened late in the evening, but it was dark within, at least in the front room; further in there was heard the sound of music.
Who acts: opposite · What happens: open, be, hear · To what, where: door opposite, sound
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 (opposite), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 opposite | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opposite | compound |
| 3 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 opened | advmod |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 opened | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dark | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 dark | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dark | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dark | cop |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 opened | conj |
| 16 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 least | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 least | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 least | case |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 dark | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 22 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 room | amod |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 least | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 25 | further | further | ADV | _ | 29 heard | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 heard | case |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 heard | expl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | aux:pass |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 opened | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sound | det |
| 31 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 music | case |
| 33 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sound | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the door opposite | evening | late property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | opposite | within least; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | the sound of music | there | further property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus |
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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