Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 22
He slept with the door open which led to the balcony; the wind had raised the curtain before it, and there appeared a wonderful brightness over all in the balcony of the opposite house.
Who acts: music · What happens: sleep, lead, raise, appear · To what, where: wind, wonderful brightness, balcony
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 (music), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slept | obl |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 slept | xcomp |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slept | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 balcony | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 balcony | det |
| 11 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 raised | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raised | aux |
| 16 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 led | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 curtain | det |
| 18 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raised | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 raised | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appeared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appeared | cc |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 appeared | advmod |
| 24 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slept | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 brightness | det |
| 26 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brightness | amod |
| 27 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appeared | obj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 balcony | case |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 balcony | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 balcony | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 balcony | det |
| 32 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appeared | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 house | det |
| 35 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 house | amod |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 balcony | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | music | with the door; open property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | to the balcony | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to balcony=Patient | |||||
| 3 | raise | past · perfect · passive | the wind | before curtain | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme curtain=Destination | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | music not said here | a wonderful brightness | the balcony of the opposite house; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brightness=Theme |
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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