Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 13
I saw how he looked at his pale face in the glass, with eyes half closed, to see if he should look well as a corpse.
Who acts: I, hero, eyes half · What happens: see, look, close · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hero, eyes half), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 looked | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 face | amod |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 glass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glass | det |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 half | compound |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 closed | nsubj |
| 17 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 look | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 look | aux |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | ccomp |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 look | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 corpse | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 corpse | det |
| 28 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 look | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | past | hero | in the glass; at hero's pale face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | eyes half | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | look a condition, not said to happen | should | hero | as a corpse; well property | 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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