Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 34

The door stands half-open: now the shadow should be cunning, and go into the room, look about, and then come and tell me what it had seen.

Who acts: door, shadow · What happens: stand, be, go, look, come, tell · To what, where: room, me, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (door, shadow), 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 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stands	nsubj
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 open	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stands	xcomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 cunning	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 cunning	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cunning	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cunning	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cunning	cop
13	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stands	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 cunning	parataxis
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	parataxis
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 come	advmod
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cunning	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 seen	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seen	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 tell	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	the door					open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	should	the shadow				now	cunning property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive				the room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
4	look	infinitive						about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	come	infinitive	the shadow not said here				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the shadow not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	see	past · perfect · passive		shadow					tree rules

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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