Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 4

Close wooden shutters covered the windows behind the walls of the houses; but through the windows of the temple a faint light glimmered.

Who acts: Close wooden shutters, faint light · What happens: cover, glimmer · To what, where: windows, walls

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Close wooden shutters, faint light), 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	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shutters	amod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shutters	amod
3	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 windows	det
6	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 windows	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 houses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 houses	det
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walls	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 glimmered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 glimmered	cc
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 windows	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 windows	det
17	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 glimmered	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 temple	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 temple	det
20	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 windows	nmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 light	det
22	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 light	amod
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glimmered	nsubj
24	glimmered	glimmer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	Close wooden shutters	the windows		the walls of the houses			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Destination
2	glimmer	past	a faint light			the windows of the temple			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location

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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