Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 39

There he stood on the old landing, with the autumn wind blowing down upon him through the trap-door.

Who acts: huckster, autumn wind · What happens: stand, blow down · To what, where: old landing, trap door

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huckster, autumn wind), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stood	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 landing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 landing	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 landing	amod
7	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wind	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wind	compound
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
13	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 wind	acl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 blowing	advmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 blowing	obl
17	through	through	ADP	_	21 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
19	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 door	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 trap	punct
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blowing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	huckster			the old landing; there		with the autumn wind	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on landing=Location
2	blow down	gerund	the autumn wind not said here			the trap door		upon huckster; down property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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