Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 47

She said neither "thanks" nor "creak," but she looked down upon the little boy with her mild eyes; and then he said to the old man,

Who acts: piece, boy · What happens: say, look down · To what, where: old man · 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 (piece, boy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 thanks	cc:preconj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thanks	punct
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thanks	punct
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 creak	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 creak	punct
9	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thanks	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 creak	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 creak	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 looked	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 boy	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
22	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 boy	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 said	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	piece				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look down	past	piece			upon the little boy with piece's mild eyes; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon boy=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	boy	the old man	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient

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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