Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 90

“Yes, she could sing that!” said he, and nodded to the portrait, which he had bought at the broker's, and the old man's eyes shone so bright!

Who acts: Trateratra, man, eyes · What happens: sing, say, nod, buy, shine · To what, where: that, portrait, broker · 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 (Trateratra, man, eyes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 sing	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sing	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sing	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	aux
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sing	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sing	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sing	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nodded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nodded	cc
14	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 portrait	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 portrait	det
17	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nodded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bought	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bought	nsubj:pass
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bought	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bought	aux
22	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 portrait	acl:relcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 broker	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 broker	det
25	broker	broker	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bought	obl
26	's	's	PART	_	25 broker	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shone	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 shone	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 man	case
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 shone	nsubj
34	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nodded	conj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 bright	advmod
36	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shone	xcomp
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	could	Trateratra	that				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	nod	past			the portrait			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to portrait=Recipient
4	buy	past · perfect · passive		the portrait		the broker		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at broker=Asset
5	shine	past	the old man's eyes				bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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: «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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