Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 5

At first I thought he was looking at the great clock, which was gaily painted in red and green.

Who acts: I, child · What happens: think, look, paint · To what, where: great clock, red · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thought	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looking	aux
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 clock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clock	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clock	amod
11	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 painted	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 painted	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 painted	aux:pass
15	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	16 painted	advmod
16	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 clock	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 red	case
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 painted	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 green	cc
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 red	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	look	past · progressive	child			at the great clock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clock=Theme
3	paint	past · passive		the great clock	red	gaily property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in red=Destination

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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