Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 11

Now and then he came to the window and looked out, and the little boy nodded to him, and the old man nodded again, and so they became acquaintances, and then they were friends, although they had never spoken to each other--but that made no difference.

Who acts: man, little boy, old man, breeches, that · What happens: come, look out, nod, become, be, not speak · To what, where: window, man, old man, acquaintances, friends, breeches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, little boy, old man, breeches), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 looked	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nodded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nodded	cc
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	17 nodded	nsubj
17	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nodded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 became	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 became	nsubj
25	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 man	acl
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 nodded	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 became	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 became	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
32	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 became	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 friends	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 friends	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 friends	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 friends	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 friends	cop
38	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 spoken	punct
40	although	although	SCONJ	_	44 spoken	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 spoken	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 spoken	aux
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 spoken	advmod
44	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 each	case
46	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	44 spoken	obl
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 each	fixed
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 made	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 made	cc
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 made	nsubj
51	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 difference	det
53	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man			the window	now; then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
2	look out	past	man not said here						vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	nod	past	the little boy		man				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	nod	participle		the old man not said here			again		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	become	past	the old man	acquaintances					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	is a	past	breeches = breech	friends			then		tree rules
7	not speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		breeches = breech				to each	tree rules
8	make	past	that	no difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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