Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 7

“Poor thing!” said the old poet, as he went to open the door.

Who acts: old poet, child · What happens: say, go, open · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old poet, child), 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	_	3 thing	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poet	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poet	amod
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 open	mark
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old poet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	child		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	open	to-infinitive	child not said here	the door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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