Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 41

But the youngest child in the room, a boy, with large, earnest eyes, mounted upon a chair behind the window curtains, and looked out into the yard, where the moon was pouring a flood of light on the old gravestone,--the stone that had always appeared to him so dull and flat, but which lay there now like a great leaf out of a book of history.

Who acts: youngest child, moon, light · What happens: mount, look out, pour, appear, lie, flood · To what, where: large earnest eyes, chair, flood, old gravestone, stone, moon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest child, moon, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eyes	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eyes	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eyes	punct
15	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 eyes	amod
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 child	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mounted	punct
18	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 eyes	acl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 chair	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chair	det
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mounted	obl
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 curtains	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 curtains	det
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 curtains	compound
25	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 chair	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 looked	compound:prt
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 yard	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 yard	det
32	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pouring	punct
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 pouring	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 moon	det
36	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pouring	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 pouring	aux
38	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 looked	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 flood	det
40	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pouring	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 light	case
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 flood	nmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	46 gravestone	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 gravestone	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 gravestone	amod
46	gravestone	gravestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pouring	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 stone	punct
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 stone	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 stone	det
50	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gravestone	appos
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 appeared	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 appeared	aux
53	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	54 appeared	advmod
54	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 stone	acl:relcl
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 him	case
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 appeared	obl
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 dull	advmod
58	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 appeared	xcomp
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 flat	cc
60	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 dull	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 lay	punct
62	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 lay	cc
63	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 lay	nsubj
64	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looked	parataxis
65	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 lay	advmod
66	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 lay	advmod
67	like	like	ADP	_	70 leaf	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 leaf	det
69	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 leaf	amod
70	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lay	obl
71	out	out	ADP	_	74 book	case
72	of	of	ADP	_	74 book	case
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 book	det
74	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lay	obl
75	of	of	ADP	_	76 history	case
76	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 book	nmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	participle		large earnest eyes not said here		a chair behind the window curtains			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon chair=Destination
2	look out	past	the youngest child in the room and a boy and large earnest eyes					into the yard	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	pour	past · progressive	the moon	a flood of light		the old gravestone			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Patient
4	appear	past · perfect · passive		the stone	moon			always, dull property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lie	past				a book of history; there	now	like a great leaf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out book=Location
6	flood		light						nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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