Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 92

It was almost always lighted up; and one evening he saw the shadow of her face quite plainly on the window blind; that was a glorious evening for him.

Who acts: father, that · What happens: light up, see, be, shadow · To what, where: window, shadow, glorious evening, face

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, that), 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 lighted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	aux:pass
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 always	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 lighted	advmod
5	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 lighted	compound:prt
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 lighted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 evening	nummod
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl:unmarked
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shadow	det
14	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shadow	nmod
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 plainly	advmod
19	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	12 saw	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
23	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 window	amod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 evening	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 evening	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 evening	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 evening	det
28	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 evening	amod
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighted	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 evening	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	past · passive		window			always property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	see	past	father	the shadow of Joanna's face	the window	evening	plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
3	is a	past	that	a glorious evening			for father	tree rules
4	shadow			Joanna's face				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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