Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 10

He glances with a smile at the worm-eaten crowns, and if he happens to be a pious, thoughtful man, something of melancholy mingles with the smile.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: glance, eat, happen, be, mingle · To what, where: pious thoughtful man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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 glances	nsubj
2	glances	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 smile	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 smile	det
5	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glances	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	11 crowns	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crowns	det
8	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 worm	punct
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 crowns	amod
11	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glances	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happens	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 happens	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 happens	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happens	nsubj
16	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 glances	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	23 man	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 man	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
20	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pious	punct
22	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happens	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 something	punct
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 man	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 melancholy	case
27	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mingles	obl
28	mingles	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 something	acl:relcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 smile	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 smile	det
31	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mingles	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glances	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	glance	present	stranger		with a smile; at the eaten crowns	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crown=Theme
2	eat	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	stranger			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	a pious thoughtful man		tree rules
5	mingle	present			of melancholy; with the smile	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with smile=Co-Patient

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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