Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 6

Of the splendid throne-hall only a naked wall yet stands, and a black cypress throws its dark shadow on the spot where the throne once stood.

Who acts: naked wall, black cypress, throne, cypress · What happens: stand, throw, shadow · To what, where: dark shadow, spot

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (naked wall, black cypress, throne, cypress), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	6 hall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hall	amod
4	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hall	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 throne	punct
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	12 stands	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wall	det
9	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wall	amod
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	nsubj
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 stands	advmod
12	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 throws	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 throws	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cypress	det
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cypress	amod
17	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throws	nsubj
18	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stands	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shadow	nmod:poss
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shadow	amod
21	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throws	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 spot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spot	det
24	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throws	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 stood	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 throne	det
27	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	nsubj
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 stood	advmod
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 spot	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a naked wall			yet	of the splendid throne hall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	present	a black cypress	cypress's dark shadow	the spot			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on spot=Destination
3	stand	past	the throne				once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shadow		cypress					nom shadow «state 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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