--- title: It was quite natural, therefore, that his shadow should fall on the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was quite natural, therefore, that his shadow should fall on the wall of the opposite house; so that, as he sat amongst the flowers on his balcony, when he moved, his shadow moved also. Who acts: room, shadow, street. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/) / 32 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 32 It was quite natural, therefore, that his shadow should fall on the wall of the opposite house; so that, as he sat amongst the flowers on his balcony, when he moved, his shadow moved also. **Who acts:** room, shadow, street · **What happens:** be, fall, sit, move, shadow · **To what, where:** wall, balcony This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, shadow, street), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:165:32 # text = It was quite natural, therefore, that his shadow should fall on the wall of the opposite house; so that, as he sat amongst the flowers on his balcony, when he moved, his shadow moved also. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 quite quite ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 26 mark _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 27 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 41 also also ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | room | | | | | natural, therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | should | street's shadow | | | the wall of the opposite house | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wall=Location | | 3 | **sit** | past | street | | | street's balcony | | amongst the flowers | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst flower=Location | | 4 | **move** | past | street | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **move** | past | street's shadow | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **shadow** | | street | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **shadow** | | street | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/33/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/)