Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 24

It was to him as if light streamed from her, and dazzled his eyes; but then he had only just opened them, as he awoke from his sleep.

Who acts: maiden, wind · What happens: be, stream, dazzle, have, open, awake · To what, where: light, eyes, sleep

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 (maiden, wind), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 him	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 him	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dazzled	nsubj:outer
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 light	mark
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 him	nmod
8	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 light	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 streamed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dazzled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dazzled	cc
13	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dazzled	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 had	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dazzled	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 opened	advmod
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 opened	advmod
23	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 opened	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 awoke	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 awoke	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 awoke	nsubj
28	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sleep	nmod:poss
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 awoke	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 dazzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	maiden				to wind; as light	tree rules
2	stream	participle		light not said here			from foreigner	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from she=Source
3	dazzle	past	wind	wind's eyes				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
4	have	past	wind			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	open	past	wind not said here	eyes = eye				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
6	awake	past	wind		wind's sleep			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sleep		wind					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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