Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 23

But the grandest appeared when the door of a side room opened; the little boy could remember what beautiful things he had seen there, but to-night everything shone in its brightest colors.

Who acts: grandest, door, little boy · What happens: appear, open, remember, see, shine · To what, where: beautiful things, everything, brightest colors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandest, door, little boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 appeared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandest	det
3	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 opened	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opened	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nmod
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remember	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 remember	aux
18	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appeared	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 seen	obj
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seen	nsubj:pass
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 remember	ccomp
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 seen	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shone	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 shone	cc
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shone	obl
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 shone	nsubj:pass
32	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 appeared	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 colors	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 colors	nmod:poss
35	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 colors	amod
36	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 shone	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	appear	past	the grandest				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past	the door of a side room				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember	could	the little boy				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see	past · perfect · passive		beautiful things	there		tree rules
5	shine	participle · passive		everything	door's brightest colors	night	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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