Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 5

Knud was in the foremost row, and shouted as joyously as the rest; and when the carriage stopped before a brilliantly lighted house, Knud placed himself close to the door of her carriage.

Who acts: Knud, foremost row, carriage · What happens: be, shout, stop, light, place · To what, where: foremost row, Knud

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, foremost row, carriage), 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	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 row	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 row	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 row	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 row	det
5	foremost	foremost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 row	amod
6	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shouted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shouted	cc
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 row	acl:relcl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 joyously	advmod
11	joyously	joyously	ADV	_	9 shouted	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 rest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stopped	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stopped	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 carriage	det
19	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stopped	nsubj
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shouted	conj
21	before	before	ADP	_	25 house	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 house	det
23	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	24 lighted	advmod
24	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 house	amod
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stopped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 placed	punct
27	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 placed	nsubj
28	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 row	conj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 placed	obj
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 placed	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 carriage	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 carriage	nmod:poss
36	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 row	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Knud		the foremost row			tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	the foremost row not said here				as the rest; joyously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	participle	the carriage			before a lighted house		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	light	participle					brilliantly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	place	past	Knud	Knud			close property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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