Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 39

Soren stood abashed, and even the little gracious lady looked down a little; but then he said, quite short and pretty,

Who acts: Soren, little gracious lady · What happens: stand, abash, look down, say · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soren, little gracious lady), 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	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	abashed	abash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
6	even	even	ADV	_	10 lady	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
9	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 looked	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looked	obl:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 said	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 short	punct
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 short	advmod
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pretty	cc
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 short	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stand	past	Soren			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	abash	participle	Soren not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	look down	past	the little gracious lady	a little		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	Soren		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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