Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 17

The doors leading to the balcony were half opened in the evening; and although in the front room all was dark, music could be heard from the interior of the house.

Who acts: doors, all · What happens: lead, open, be, hear · To what, where: doors, front room, music, interior

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 (doors, all), 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 doors	det
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 opened	nsubj:pass
3	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 doors	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 balcony	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 balcony	det
6	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leading	obl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	aux:pass
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 opened	advmod
9	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 evening	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dark	cc
15	although	although	SCONJ	_	22 dark	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
18	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 room	amod
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dark	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 dark	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dark	cop
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 opened	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
24	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 heard	aux:pass
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dark	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 interior	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 interior	det
30	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 interior	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	gerund	the doors not said here				to the balcony	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to balcony=Patient
2	open	past · passive		the doors		evening	half property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	all		the front room		dark property	tree rules
4	hear	could · passive		music	the interior of the house			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from interior=Source

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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