Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 37

Then the foreigner stood up, and the shadow on the opposite balcony stood up also; the foreigner turned round, the shadow turned; and if any one had observed, they might have seen it go straight into the half-opened door of the opposite balcony, as the learned man re-entered his own room, and let the curtain fall.

Who acts: foreigner, shadow, lights, learned man, curtain · What happens: stand up, turn round, turn, observe, see, go · To what, where: one, opened door, own room, curtain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (foreigner, shadow, lights, learned man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foreigner	det
3	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shadow	det
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 balcony	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 balcony	det
12	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 balcony	amod
13	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shadow	nmod
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 stood	compound:prt
16	also	also	ADV	_	14 stood	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foreigner	det
19	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
21	round	round	ADV	_	20 turned	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shadow	det
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 seen	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seen	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 observed	mark
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 observed	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 observed	aux
32	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 seen	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 observed	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seen	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 seen	aux
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stood	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 go	nsubj
39	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	ccomp
40	straight	straight	ADV	_	46 door	advmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	46 door	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 door	det
43	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	45 opened	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 half	punct
45	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 door	amod
46	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 balcony	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 balcony	det
49	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 balcony	amod
50	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 door	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 re-entered	punct
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 re-entered	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 man	det
54	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 man	amod
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 re-entered	nsubj
56	re-entered	re-enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 room	nmod:poss
58	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 room	amod
59	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 re-entered	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 let	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 let	cc
62	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	56 re-entered	conj
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 curtain	det
64	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 let	obj
65	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 let	xcomp
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the foreigner			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand up	past	the shadow on the opposite balcony					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn round	past	the foreigner				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	past	the shadow					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	observe a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		any one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
6	see	might · perfect	lights = light					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	go	present	shadow		the opened door of the opposite balcony			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into door=Initial_Location
8	open	participle						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	learn	participle						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	re-enter	past	the learned man	man's own room				tree rules
11	let	infinitive	the learned man not said here	the curtain				tree rules
12	fall	infinitive	the curtain not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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