Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 16
And the old errand man looked quite pleased, nodded, and took the pewter soldier over to the old house.
Who acts: old errand man · What happens: look, nod, take · To what, where: pewter soldier, old house
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 (old errand 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
| 10 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pleased | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soldier | det |
| 15 | pewter | pewter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 soldier | amod |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old errand man | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | nod | participle | the old errand man not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the old errand man not said here | the pewter soldier | the old house | over property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme to house=Destination |
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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