Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 72

Little Anthony kept the flower-pot, and every morning during the whole winter he looked at it, but there was nothing to be seen but black earth.

Who acts: Little Anthony, Anthony, nothing · What happens: keep, look, be, see · To what, where: flower pot, whole winter, pot

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 (Little Anthony, Anthony, nothing), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Anthony	amod
2	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pot	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 morning	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 morning	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl:unmarked
12	during	during	ADP	_	15 winter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 winter	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 winter	amod
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 winter	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 was	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 was	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 seen	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 nothing	acl
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 earth	cc
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 earth	amod
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	Little Anthony	the flower pot		morning; winter	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
2	look	past	Anthony	the whole winter not said here	pot		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme winter=Attribute
3	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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