Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 8

The staircase was brilliantly lighted: servants carrying wax candles in massive silver candlesticks stood there, and bowed low before an old woman, who was being brought downstairs in a litter.

Who acts: servants · What happens: light, carry, stand, bow, bring · To what, where: staircase, wax candles, massive silver candlesticks, old woman, litter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 staircase	det
2	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	aux:pass
4	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	5 lighted	advmod
5	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 servants	punct
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stood	nsubj
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 servants	acl
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 candles	compound
10	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carrying	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 candlesticks	case
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 candlesticks	amod
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 candlesticks	compound
14	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carrying	obl
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	parataxis
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 stood	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bowed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bowed	cc
19	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lighted	conj
20	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 bowed	advmod
21	before	before	ADP	_	24 woman	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bowed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 brought	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	aux:pass
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 brought	aux:pass
29	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 woman	conj
30	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	29 brought	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 litter	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 litter	det
33	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past · passive		the staircase			brilliantly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	carry	gerund	servants not said here	wax candles	massive silver candlesticks			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent candle=Value in candlestick=Location
3	stand	past	servants		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bow	participle				before a old woman	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before woman=Location
5	bring	past · passive		a old woman	a litter		downstairs property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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