Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 7

It was really a pleasure, as soon as the lights were brought into the room, to see the shadow stretch itself against the wall, even to the ceiling, so tall was it; and it really wanted a good stretch to recover its strength.

Who acts: shadow, sun, good stretch · What happens: be, bring, see, stretch, want, recover · To what, where: pleasure, lights, room, shadow, sun, good stretch

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 (shadow, sun, good stretch), 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	5 pleasure	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasure	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 pleasure	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pleasure	det
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 brought	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 lights	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lights	det
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brought	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux:pass
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pleasure	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 brought	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shadow	det
21	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	xcomp
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 stretch	obj
24	against	against	ADP	_	26 wall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wall	det
26	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretch	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ceiling	punct
28	even	even	ADV	_	31 ceiling	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 ceiling	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ceiling	det
31	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretch	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tall	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 tall	advmod
34	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pleasure	conj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 it	cop
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tall	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 wanted	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 wanted	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wanted	nsubj
40	really	really	ADV	_	41 wanted	advmod
41	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasure	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 stretch	det
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 stretch	amod
44	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wanted	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 recover	mark
46	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 wanted	xcomp
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 strength	nmod:poss
48	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 recover	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleasure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a pleasure			tree rules
2	bring	past · passive		the lights	the room	soon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into room=Destination
3	see	to-infinitive		the shadow			tree rules
4	stretch	infinitive	the shadow not said here	shadow		against the wall; to the ceiling result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient to ceiling=Result
5	be						tree rules
6	is a	past		sun			tree rules
7	want	past	sun	a good stretch			tree rules
8	recover not said to happen	to-infinitive	a good stretch not said here	sun's strength			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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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