Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 57

It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly; and after the lapse of eight days he observed, to his great joy, that a new shadow came in the sunshine.

Who acts: shadow, everything, man, new shadow, eight days · What happens: be, grow, observe, come, lapse, joy · To what, where: warm lands, great joy, sunshine

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, everything, man, new 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vexatious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vexatious	cop
3	vexatious	vexatious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 grows	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 grows	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 lands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lands	det
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lands	amod
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grows	obl
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vexatious	parataxis
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 quickly	advmod
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 grows	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 observed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 observed	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 lapse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lapse	det
18	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 observed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 days	case
20	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lapse	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 observed	nsubj
23	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vexatious	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 joy	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 joy	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 joy	nmod:poss
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 joy	amod
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 observed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shadow	det
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shadow	amod
33	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 observed	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 sunshine	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sunshine	det
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 vexatious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	shadow				vexatious property	tree rules
2	grow	present	everything		the warm lands		quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
3	observe	past	man	man's great joy		after the lapse of eight days		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to joy=Recipient
4	come	past	a new shadow		the sunshine			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
5	lapse		eight days					nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=agent
6	joy		man					nom joy «feeling 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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