Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 21

Sometimes he came to one of the windows and looked out; then the little boy nodded to him, and the old man nodded back again, till they became acquainted, and were friends, although they had never spoken to each other; but that was of no consequence.

Who acts: man, little boy, old man, windows, that · What happens: come, look out, nod, nod back, become, be · To what, where: one, man, friends, windows · 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, little boy, old man, windows), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 windows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 windows	det
8	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 looked	compound:prt
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 nodded	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 nodded	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nodded	nsubj
17	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nodded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 nodded	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 nodded	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nodded	nsubj
25	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 nodded	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 nodded	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 became	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
32	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 became	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 friends	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 friends	cc
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 friends	cop
36	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 became	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spoken	punct
38	although	although	SCONJ	_	42 spoken	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 spoken	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 spoken	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 spoken	advmod
42	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 became	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 each	case
44	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	42 spoken	obl
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 each	fixed
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 consequence	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 consequence	cc
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 consequence	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 consequence	cop
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 consequence	case
51	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 consequence	det
52	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man		one of the windows		sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location
2	look out	past	man not said here					vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	nod	past	the little boy		man	then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	nod back	past	the old man			again		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	become	past	windows = window				acquainted property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	is a	past	windows = window not said here	friends				tree rules
7	not speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		windows = window			to each	tree rules
8	is	past	that				of no consequence	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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