Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 87
He had rested himself now, and he looked happy, and seemed as if he nodded to Hjalmar, as if to thank him.
Who acts: Hjalmar · What happens: rest, look, seem, nod, thank · To what, where: Hjalmar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hjalmar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rested | aux |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 rested | obj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rested | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rested | parataxis |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 nodded | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 nodded | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nodded | nsubj |
| 17 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seemed | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Hjalmar | case |
| 19 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 nodded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thank | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 thank | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 thank | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 thank | mark |
| 24 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nodded | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thank | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · perfect | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Hjalmar | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Hjalmar not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | nod | past | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hjalmar=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hjalmar not said here | Hjalmar | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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