Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 27
The door stood ajar, and from an inner room sounded music so sweet and so lovely, that it produced the most enchanting thoughts, and acted on the senses with magic power.
Who acts: door · What happens: stand, sound, produce, enchant, act · To what, where: music, inner room, enchanting thoughts, senses
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 (door), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ajar | ajar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sounded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sounded | cc |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 9 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounded | obl |
| 11 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounded | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sweet | advmod |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sounded | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lovely | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 lovely | advmod |
| 17 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sweet | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 produced | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 produced | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 produced | nsubj |
| 21 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounded | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thoughts | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 enchanting | advmod |
| 24 | enchanting | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 thoughts | amod |
| 25 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 produced | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 acted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 acted | cc |
| 28 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 senses | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 senses | det |
| 31 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 acted | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 power | case |
| 33 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 power | amod |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 acted | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the door | ajar property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | music | a inner room | sweet property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme | |||
| 3 | produce | past | door | the enchanting thoughts | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Result | ||||
| 4 | enchant | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | act | participle | the door not said here | the senses | with magic power | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sens=Eventuality |
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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