Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 101

There was no light, or at least it seemed in partial darkness, for the door of a whole suite of rooms stood open, and they were brilliantly lighted.

Who acts: light, it, whole suite · What happens: be, seem, stand, light · To what, where: door, least, lights

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, it, whole suite), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 least	case
8	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 seemed	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 darkness	case
12	partial	partial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 darkness	amod
13	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 door	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 suite	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 suite	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 suite	amod
21	suite	suite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 rooms	case
23	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stood	obl
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 suite	acl:relcl
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stood	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lighted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lighted	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lighted	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lighted	aux:pass
30	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	31 lighted	advmod
31	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no light		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	it	the door	least	in partial darkness	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in darkness=Attribute
3	stand	past	a whole suite not said here			of rooms; open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	light	past · passive		lights = light		brilliantly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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