Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 102
Then he looked at the picture he had bought at the broker's, and his eyes sparkled brightly as he nodded at it, and said, "Ah, she could sing that tune."
Who acts: man, eyes, door · What happens: look, buy, sparkle, nod, say, sing · To what, where: picture, broker, tune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, eyes, door), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 picture | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 picture | det |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bought | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bought | aux |
| 9 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 picture | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 broker | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 broker | det |
| 12 | broker | broker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obl |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 broker | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sparkled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sparkled | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sparkled | nsubj |
| 18 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 19 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 18 sparkled | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 nodded | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nodded | nsubj |
| 22 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sparkled | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nodded | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sing | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 sing | punct |
| 30 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 34 sing | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ah | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sing | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 sing | aux |
| 34 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 tune | det |
| 36 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sing | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 sing | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | man | then | at the picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | past · perfect | man | the picture not said here | the broker | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent picture=Theme at broker=Asset | |||
| 3 | sparkle | past | man's eyes | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | nod | past | man | broker | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sing speech: express in a quote | could | door | that tune | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |
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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