Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 198

He uncovered his face that he might look into her gentle eyes, while everything around him changed from its look of poverty and want, to a bright rose tint.

Who acts: weather, everything · What happens: uncover, look, change, want · To what, where: face, look

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 (weather, everything), 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 uncovered	nsubj
2	uncovered	uncover	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 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uncovered	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 look	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uncovered	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
11	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 changed	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 changed	mark
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 changed	nsubj
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 everything	nmod
18	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 uncovered	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 look	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 look	nmod:poss
21	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 poverty	case
23	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 want	cc
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 poverty	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tint	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 tint	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tint	det
29	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tint	amod
30	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tint	compound
31	tint	tint	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uncovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	uncover	past	weather	weather's face			tree rules
2	look	might	weather			into Lady's gentle eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
3	change	past	everything		face's look of poverty	to a bright rose tint result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from look=Initial_State to tint=Result
4	want	present	everything not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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