Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 30

The light burnt in the room behind him; and thus it was quite natural that his shadow should fall on his opposite neighbor's wall.

Who acts: light, shadow, stranger · What happens: burnt, be, fall, shadow · To what, where: light, room, wall

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, shadow, stranger), 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	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 natural	nsubj
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 light	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burnt	obl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 room	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 natural	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 natural	cc
11	thus	thus	ADV	_	15 natural	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 natural	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 natural	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 natural	advmod
15	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 fall	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shadow	nmod:poss
18	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fall	aux
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 natural	csubj
21	on	on	ADP	_	26 wall	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 neighbor	nmod:poss
23	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 neighbor	amod
24	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wall	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 neighbor	case
26	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 natural	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burnt	participle		the light not said here	the room behind stranger		tree rules
2	is	past	the light			natural, thus property	tree rules
3	fall	should	stranger's shadow		stranger's opposite neighbor's wall		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
4	shadow		stranger				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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