Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 4

Before them danced about barefoot the little son of the porter, with his great brown eyes and dark hair; and the little girl smiled at him, and stretched out her hands towards him; and when the General saw that from the window, he would nod his head and cry, "Charming!"

Who acts: distance, little girl, General · What happens: dance, smile, stretch out, see, nod, cry · To what, where: little son, hands, that, window, head

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 (distance, little girl, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 danced	mark
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 barefoot	case
5	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 porter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 porter	det
11	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eyes	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
16	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 danced	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hair	cc
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hair	amod
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eyes	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 smiled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smiled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 girl	amod
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smiled	nsubj
26	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smiled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stretched	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stretched	cc
31	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 smiled	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 stretched	compound:prt
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stretched	obj
35	towards	towards	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stretched	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 saw	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 saw	cc
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 saw	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 General	det
41	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 saw	nsubj
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 saw	obj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 window	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 window	det
46	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 saw	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 nod	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 nod	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 nod	aux
50	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 danced	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 head	nmod:poss
52	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 nod	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 cry	cc
54	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 nod	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 Charming	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 Charming	punct
57	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	parataxis
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	57 Charming	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 Charming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past	distance	the little son of the porter		about barefoot; with porter's great brown eyes and dark hair	tree rules
2	smile	past	the little girl			at porter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stretch out	participle	the little girl not said here	girl's hands		towards porter	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards he=Recipient
4	see	past	the General	that	the window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	nod	would	General	General's head			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
6	cry speech: express	infinitive	General not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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