Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 6

The door of the servants' room stood open, and the bed looked as if it had been turned over and over; the candle stood on the floor, and had burnt deep down into the socket.

Who acts: door, bed, candle · What happens: stand, look, turn over, burnt · To what, where: bed, floor, socket

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, bed, candle), 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 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servants	det
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 room	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 servants	case
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 door	nmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stood	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 turned	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 turned	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 turned	aux:pass
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 looked	advcl
21	over	over	ADP	_	20 turned	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 over	cc
23	over	over	ADV	_	20 turned	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 candle	det
26	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 burnt	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 burnt	cc
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 burnt	aux
34	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 stood	conj
35	deep	deep	ADV	_	36 down	advmod
36	down	down	ADV	_	34 burnt	advmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 socket	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 socket	det
39	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burnt	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the door of the servants's room			open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	the bed				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	turn over	past · perfect · passive		bed			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	stand	past	the candle		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
5	burnt	past · perfect	the candle not said here		the socket	down property	tree rules

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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