Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 118
The old Count looked at the pictures, and had his own thoughts as he did so.
Who acts: old Count, General · What happens: look, have, do, think · To what, where: own thoughts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Count, General), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Count | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Count | amod |
| 3 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 pictures | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pictures | det |
| 7 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thoughts | amod |
| 13 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 did | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | advcl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 did | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old Count | at the pictures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the old Count not said here | General's own thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | General | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think | General | 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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