Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 43

The sunlight shone on only one of the walls, and that one was stuck over with bills and placards, before which the people stood still; and this made a crowd.

Who acts: people, sunlight · What happens: shine, stick over, stand, make · To what, where: sunlight, one, crowd

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, sunlight), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sunlight	det
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sunlight	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 shone	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stuck	cc
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stuck	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	aux:pass
15	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	conj
16	over	over	ADV	_	15 stuck	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 bills	case
18	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stuck	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 placards	cc
20	placards	placard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bills	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 stood	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 people	det
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	conj
27	still	still	ADV	_	26 stood	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 crowd	det
33	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		the sunlight not said here		on one of the walls	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location
2	stick over	past · passive		that one		with bills and placards; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bill=Theme
3	stand	past	the people		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before which=Location
4	make	past	the sunlight	a crowd			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crowd=Product

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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