Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 25

She quickly put out the light, felt if the fastening of the window was secure, and then left him to howl as long as he liked.

Who acts: bird, fastening, man · What happens: put out, feel, be, leave, howl, like · To what, where: light, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, fastening, man), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 secure	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fastening	det
11	fastening	fastening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 secure	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fastening	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 secure	cop
16	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 left	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 left	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 left	advmod
20	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 left	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 howl	mark
23	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 left	advcl
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 howl	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 liked	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 liked	nsubj
28	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 long	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	bird	the light		quickly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal
2	feel	past	bird not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the fastening of the window			secure property	tree rules
4	leave	past	bird not said here	man	then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	howl	to-infinitive	bird not said here			long property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	like	past	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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