Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 19

He opened his eyes, rubbed them with his hands, and looked at the brisk little lad. '

Who acts: husband · What happens: open, rub, look · To what, where: eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rubbed	punct
6	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rubbed	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 lad	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lad	det
16	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lad	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lad	amod
18	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	husband	husband's eyes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
2	rub	past	husband not said here	eyes = eye	with husband's hands	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with hand=Theme
3	look	past	husband not said here		at the brisk little lad	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lad=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: «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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