Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 201

Peep!" they said sweeping the ground with their tails, and blinking with one eye at the roses, they had not looked at them long before they were convinced that they were their old neighbours.

Who acts: roses · What happens: say, sweep, blink, not look, be · To what, where: ground, roses, old neighbours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Peep	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Peep	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 said	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweeping	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tails	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tails	nmod:poss
11	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sweeping	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blinking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blinking	cc
14	blinking	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sweeping	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 eye	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eye	nummod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blinking	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 roses	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roses	det
20	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blinking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 looked	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 looked	advmod
25	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	obl
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 looked	advmod
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 convinced	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 convinced	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 convinced	cop
32	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looked	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 neighbours	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 neighbours	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 neighbours	cop
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 neighbours	nmod:poss
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 neighbours	amod
38	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 convinced	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	roses = rose				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sweep in a quote	gerund	roses = rose not said here	the ground		with roses's tails	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory
3	blink in a quote	gerund	roses = rose not said here		the roses	with one eye	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rose=Location
4	not look in a quote	past · perfect · passive		roses = rose		at eye; long property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
5	is in a quote	past	roses = rose			convinced property	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	past	roses = rose	roses's old neighbours			tree rules

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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