Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 31

Yes! there it sat, directly opposite, between the flowers on the balcony; and when the stranger moved, the shadow also moved: for that it always does.

Who acts: shadow, stranger · What happens: sit, move, do · To what, where: opposite

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 (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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sat	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 opposite	punct
7	directly	directly	ADV	_	8 opposite	advmod
8	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flowers	punct
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flowers	det
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 opposite	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 balcony	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 balcony	det
15	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 moved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 moved	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 moved	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stranger	det
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moved	nsubj
21	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 moved	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moved	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shadow	det
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moved	nsubj
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 moved	advmod
26	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 moved	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 does	case
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 for	fixed
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 does	nsubj
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 does	advmod
32	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 moved	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	shadow	opposite	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location opposite=Theme
2	move	past	the stranger				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	move	past	the shadow				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	shadow			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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