Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 13

He looked upward and downward, and had his own thoughts, and told in his own way of what he read in books and in himself.

Who acts: blacking · What happens: look, have, tell, read, think · To what, where: own thoughts, own way, books · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blacking), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upward	upward	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 downward	cc
5	downward	downward	ADV	_	3 upward	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 thoughts	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thoughts	amod
11	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 way	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 read	nsubj
22	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 books	case
24	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 read	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 himself	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 read	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	blacking			upward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	blacking not said here	blacking's own thoughts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	blacking not said here		blacking's own way		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	past	blacking		books		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think		blacking				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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