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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 balcony | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neighbor | det |
| 10 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 neighbor | amod |
| 11 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 neighbor | case |
| 13 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shadow | nmod |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 rose | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stranger | det |
| 18 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shadow | det |
| 23 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | conj |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the stranger | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | stranger's shadow on the opposite neighbor's balcony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn round | past | the stranger | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn round | past | the shadow | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shadow | stranger | the opposite neighbor's balcony | nom 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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