Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 61

“Come in!” said he; but no one came in; so he opened the door, and there stood before him such an extremely lean man, that he felt quite strange.

Who acts: man, one · What happens: come in, say, open, stand, feel · To what, where: door, lean man · 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 (man, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 opened	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 opened	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stood	advmod
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	obl
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 man	det:predet
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
28	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	29 lean	advmod
29	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 felt	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 felt	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 felt	nsubj
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	conj
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 strange	advmod
36	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 felt	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in	past	no one					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	past	man	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	stand	past	no one not said here	such lean man	there	before man		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
6	feel	past	man				strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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