Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 60

One evening, as he was sitting in his room, there was a gentle knocking at the door.

Who acts: man, gentle knocking · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: room

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 (man, gentle knocking), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sitting	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 knocking	det
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 knocking	amod
16	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knocking	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	man			man's room	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	be	past	a gentle knocking at the door			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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