Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 32

It was quite natural, therefore, that his shadow should fall on the wall of the opposite house; so that, as he sat amongst the flowers on his balcony, when he moved, his shadow moved also.

Who acts: room, shadow, street · What happens: be, fall, sit, move, shadow · To what, where: wall, 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 (room, shadow, street), 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 natural	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 natural	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 natural	advmod
4	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 therefore	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 natural	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 fall	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shadow	nmod:poss
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fall	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	aux
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 natural	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fall	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
18	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 house	amod
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wall	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 sat	mark
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 so	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 sat	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	parataxis
27	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flowers	det
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sat	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 balcony	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 balcony	nmod:poss
32	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 moved	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 moved	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 moved	nsubj
36	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 moved	punct
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 shadow	nmod:poss
39	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 moved	nsubj
40	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 moved	conj
41	also	also	ADV	_	40 moved	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 natural	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	room		natural, therefore property	tree rules
2	fall	should	street's shadow	the wall of the opposite house		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
3	sit	past	street	street's balcony	amongst the flowers	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst flower=Location
4	move	past	street			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	move	past	street's shadow			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	shadow		street			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent
7	shadow		street			nom shadow «state transitive»: 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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