Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 3

He, and all sensible folks, were obliged to stay within doors--the window-shutters and doors were closed the whole day; it looked as if the whole house slept, or there was no one at home.

Who acts: it, whole house, one · What happens: oblige, stay, close, look, sleep, be · To what, where: man, window shutters

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 (it, whole house, one), 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	9 obliged	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 obliged	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 obliged	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 folks	det
5	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 folks	amod
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 obliged	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 folks	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obliged	aux:pass
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 obliged	xcomp
12	within	within	ADP	_	13 doors	case
13	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stay	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 shutters	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shutters	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shutters	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 window	punct
18	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 doors	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 doors	cc
20	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shutters	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 closed	aux:pass
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shutters	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 closed	obl:unmarked
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obliged	parataxis
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 slept	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 slept	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slept	nsubj
34	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looked	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 was	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 was	cc
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looked	conj
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	nsubj
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 home	case
42	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 one	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		man				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	stay	to-infinitive					within doors and the window shutters and doors	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	close	past · passive		the window shutters and doors not said here		day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
4	look	past	it					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	sleep	past	the whole house					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	no one at home		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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