Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 6

It flew open, and she stepped out; the light fell upon her dear face, and he could see that she smiled as she thanked them, and appeared quite overcome.

Who acts: carriage, audience, light · What happens: fly, step out, fall, see, smile, thank · To what, where: dear face, people

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 (carriage, audience, light), 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	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flew	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stepped	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stepped	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stepped	nsubj
7	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 stepped	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 face	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fell	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 smiled	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 smiled	nsubj
24	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 see	advcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 thanked	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thanked	nsubj
27	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 smiled	ccomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thanked	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 appeared	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 appeared	cc
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 overcome	advmod
33	overcome	overcome	ADV	_	31 appeared	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	carriage			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	step out	past	audience				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	the light		audience's dear face		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location
4	see	could	light				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	smile	past	audience				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	thank speech: thank	past	audience	people			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	appear	past	carriage not said here			overcome property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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