Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 87

Emily sat silent, but she listened, and her eyes gleamed, but she said nothing.

Who acts: Emily, Mr., eyes · What happens: sit, listen, gleam, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emily, Mr., eyes), 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	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 listened	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 listened	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 listened	nsubj
7	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gleamed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gleamed	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gleamed	nsubj
12	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Emily		silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	past	Mr.			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	gleam	past	Mr.'s eyes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Mr.	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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