Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 24

He now opened them quite wide--yes, he was quite awake; with one spring he was on the floor; he crept gently behind the curtain, but the maiden was gone; the flowers shone no longer, but there they stood, fresh and blooming as ever; the door was ajar, and, far within, the music sounded so soft and delightful, one could really melt away in sweet thoughts from it.

Who acts: stranger, maiden, flowers, door, music, one · What happens: open, be, creep, shine, stand, bloom · To what, where: eyes, floor, curtain, sweet thoughts

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 (stranger, maiden, flowers, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 opened	advmod
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	obj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 wide	advmod
6	wide	wide	ADV	_	3 opened	advmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 awake	punct
8	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 awake	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 awake	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 awake	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 awake	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 awake	advmod
13	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opened	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 floor	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 spring	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 spring	nummod
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 floor	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 floor	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 floor	cop
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 floor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 awake	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 crept	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crept	nsubj
25	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
26	gently	gently	ADV	_	25 crept	advmod
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 curtain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 curtain	det
29	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crept	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gone	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 gone	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 maiden	det
33	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gone	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	cop
35	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crept	parataxis
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 shone	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 flowers	det
38	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shone	nsubj
39	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	parataxis
40	no	no	ADV	_	41 longer	advmod
41	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 shone	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stood	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 stood	cc
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 stood	expl
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stood	nsubj
46	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 shone	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fresh	punct
48	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 stood	parataxis
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 blooming	cc
50	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 fresh	conj
51	as	as	ADP	_	52 ever	case
52	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 blooming	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 ajar	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 door	det
55	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ajar	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 ajar	cop
57	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opened	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 sounded	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 sounded	cc
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 sounded	punct
61	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	66 sounded	advmod
62	within	within	ADP	_	61 far	fixed
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 sounded	punct
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 music	det
65	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 sounded	nsubj
66	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 ajar	parataxis
67	so	so	ADV	_	68 soft	advmod
68	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 sounded	xcomp
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 delightful	cc
70	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 soft	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 melt	punct
72	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 melt	nsubj
73	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	75 melt	aux
74	really	really	ADV	_	75 melt	advmod
75	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 sounded	advcl
76	away	away	ADV	_	75 melt	advmod
77	in	in	ADP	_	79 thoughts	case
78	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 thoughts	amod
79	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 melt	obl
80	from	from	ADP	_	81 it	case
81	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 thoughts	nmod
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	stranger	eyes = eye		now	wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	is	past	stranger				awake property	tree rules
3	is	past	stranger		the floor	spring		tree rules
4	creep	past	stranger		the curtain		gently property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind curtain=Trajectory
5	is	past	the maiden				gone property	tree rules
6	shine	past	the flowers				long property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stand	past	flowers = flower		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bloom	gerund	flowers = flower not said here					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	the door				ajar property	tree rules
10	sound	past	the music				far, soft property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
11	melt away	could	one		sweet thoughts from maiden		away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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