Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 54
As he reached the half-open door, he saw a light and went in.
Who acts: troop · What happens: reach, see, go in · To what, where: open door, light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troop), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 open | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | troop | the open door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | troop | a light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go in | past | troop not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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