Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 46

The folding-doors flew open, and light streamed from the altar through the church into the deserted square.

Who acts: folding doors, light · What happens: fly, stream, desert · To what, where: altar

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 (folding doors, light), 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	4 doors	det
2	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doors	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 folding	punct
4	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flew	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 streamed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 streamed	cc
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streamed	nsubj
10	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flew	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 altar	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 altar	det
13	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streamed	obl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 church	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 church	det
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streamed	obl
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 square	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 square	det
19	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 square	amod
20	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streamed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the folding doors		open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stream	participle	light	the altar	through the church; into the deserted square	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through church=Location
3	desert	participle				vn leave-51.2-1 «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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