Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 19

He looked up at me and smiled; and yet he had been hissed off only a minute before--hissed off from a wretched theatre, by a miserable audience.

Who acts: play · What happens: look up, smile, hiss off · To what, where: play, wretched theatre

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 (play), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smiled	cc
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hissed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hissed	cc
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 hissed	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hissed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hissed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 hissed	aux:pass
14	hissed	hiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 hissed	compound:prt
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 minute	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 minute	det
18	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hissed	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	ADV	_	14 hissed	advmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 hissed	punct
21	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 hissed	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 theatre	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 theatre	det
25	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 theatre	amod
26	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hissed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 audience	punct
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 audience	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 audience	det
30	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 audience	amod
31	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hissed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	past	play				at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
2	smile	past	play not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hiss off	past · perfect · passive		play		yet; minute	before property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	hiss off	past	play not said here		a wretched theatre		by a miserable audience	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by audience=Location

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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