Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 12

The old man who said this looked old enough to be the grandfather of all present in the room.

Who acts: old man · What happens: say, look, be · To what, where: this, grandfather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl:relcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 said	obj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looked	xcomp
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	13 grandfather	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 grandfather	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grandfather	det
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 present	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 present	det
16	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grandfather	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 present	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	look	past	the old man		old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the grandfather	of all present in the room	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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