Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 166
That flourishes still," said he, as he gazed.
Who acts: That, tree · What happens: flourish, say, gaze · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, tree), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 flourishes | nsubj |
| 2 | flourishes | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 flourishes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 flourishes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 flourishes | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flourishes | parataxis |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazed | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 gazed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gazed | nsubj |
| 11 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flourishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flourish | present | That | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gaze in a quote | past | tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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