Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 52

One evening, as he sat in his study, a very gentle tap was heard at the door. "

Who acts: man · What happens: sit, hear, study · To what, where: study, gentle tap, door

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 (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sat	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 study	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 study	nmod:poss
9	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tap	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 gentle	advmod
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tap	amod
14	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux:pass
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sat	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	man		man's study	evening	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in study=Location
2	hear	past · passive		a gentle tap	the door		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	study		man				nom study «act 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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