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Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 42

The stranger rose, and his shadow on the opposite neighbor's balcony rose also; the stranger turned round and the shadow also turned round.

Who acts: stranger, shadow · What happens: rise, turn round, shadow · To what, where: balcony

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, 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

detnsubjpunctccnmod:possnsubjcasedetamodnmod:posscasenmodconjadvmodpunctdetnsubjconjadvmodccdetnsubjadvmodconjadvmodpunctrootTheDETstrangerNOUNroseVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONshadowNOUNonADPtheDEToppositeADJneighborNOUN'sPARTbalconyNOUNroseVERBalsoADV;PUNCTtheDETstrangerNOUNturnedVERBroundADVandCCONJtheDETshadowNOUNalsoADVturnedVERBroundADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 strangerdet
2strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing3 rosensubj
3roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_14 rosepunct
5andandCCONJ_14 rosecc
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 shadownmod:poss
7shadowshadowNOUNNumber=Sing14 rosensubj
8ononADP_13 balconycase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 neighbordet
10oppositeoppositeADJDegree=Pos11 neighboramod
11neighborneighborNOUNNumber=Sing13 balconynmod:poss
12's'sPART_11 neighborcase
13balconybalconyNOUNNumber=Sing7 shadownmod
14roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 roseconj
15alsoalsoADV_14 roseadvmod
16;;PUNCT_19 turnedpunct
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 strangerdet
18strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing19 turnednsubj
19turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 roseconj
20roundroundADV_19 turnedadvmod
21andandCCONJ_25 turnedcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 shadowdet
23shadowshadowNOUNNumber=Sing25 turnednsubj
24alsoalsoADV_25 turnedadvmod
25turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 turnedconj
26roundroundADV_25 turnedadvmod
27..PUNCT_3 rosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1risepastthe strangervn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2risepaststranger's shadow on the opposite neighbor's balconyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3turn roundpastthe strangerround propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4turn roundpastthe shadowround propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5shadowstrangerthe opposite neighbor's balconynom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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