Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 54
He opened the door, and there stood before him a man so remarkably thin that he felt seriously troubled at his appearance.
Who acts: tap · What happens: open, stand, feel · To what, where: door, man
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 (tap), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stood | advmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 thin | advmod |
| 14 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 15 thin | advmod |
| 15 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 felt | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thin | advcl |
| 19 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 20 troubled | advmod |
| 20 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 appearance | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 troubled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | tap | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | tap not said here | a man | there | before tap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||
| 3 | feel | past | tap | troubled property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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