Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 17

"Will it ever knock at my door again?" said the man, and he gazed at the door, so that black spots came before his eyes and upon the floor; he did not know if it was blood, or mourning crape from the dark heavy days.

Who acts: floor, man, black spots · What happens: knock, say, gaze, come, not know, be · To what, where: eyes, blood, crape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, man, black spots), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 knock	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knock	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 knock	advmod
5	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 door	nmod:poss
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knock	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 knock	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gazed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gazed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gazed	nsubj
18	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gazed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 came	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spots	amod
26	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gazed	conj
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 came	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 floor	cc
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 floor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 floor	det
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eyes	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 know	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 know	advmod
39	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 blood	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 blood	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 blood	cop
43	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 know	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 mourning	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 mourning	cc
46	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
47	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 mourning	obj
48	from	from	ADP	_	52 days	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 days	det
50	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 days	amod
51	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 days	amod
52	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 mourning	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock in a quote	future	floor			ever; again	at my door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	say speech: ask	past	the man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gaze	past	man				at the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
4	come	past	black spots		man's eyes and the floor			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location
5	not know	past · do-support	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	floor	blood				tree rules
7	mourn	gerund	the man not said here	crape		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crape=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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