Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 31

As he sat with his chin on his hands, his eyes turned up towards me, he looked like a grotesque monument--a Punch on a grave--peculiar and whimsical!

Who acts: fellow, eyes · What happens: sit, turn up, look · To what, where: hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	advcl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 chin	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chin	nmod:poss
6	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 turned	compound:prt
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 turned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 monument	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 monument	det
22	grotesque	grotesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 monument	amod
23	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 Punch	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Punch	det
26	Punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 monument	appos
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 grave	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 grave	det
29	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Punch	nmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 peculiar	punct
31	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 monument	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 whimsical	cc
33	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 peculiar	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	fellow	fellow's hands	with fellow's chin	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location
2	turn up	past	fellow's eyes		towards me	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	fellow		like a grotesque monument peculiar	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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.

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