Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 24
And the old attendant nodded and looked very pleased, and then he carried the tin soldier into the house.
Who acts: old attendant, attendant · What happens: nod, look, carry · To what, where: tin soldier, house
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 (old attendant, attendant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nodded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 attendant | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attendant | amod |
| 4 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nodded | nsubj |
| 5 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nodded | conj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 carried | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nodded | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldier | det |
| 16 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soldier | compound |
| 17 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the old attendant | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the old attendant not said here | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | attendant | the tin soldier | the house | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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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