Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 31

They are like wet wood," he would say, looking round to see what sort of people were present, "this evening; nothing fires them."

Who acts: things, public, sort, nothing · What happens: be, say, look round, see, fire · To what, where: sort, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, public, sort, nothing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wood	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wood	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wood	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 say	conj
13	round	round	ADV	_	12 looking	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looking	advcl
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 sort	det
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 present	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 present	cop
21	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sort	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 evening	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 evening	punct
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 evening	det
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 fires	punct
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 fires	nsubj
28	fires	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fires	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wood	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	things = thing		like wet wood	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	public			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look round in a quote	gerund	public not said here		round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	public not said here	what sort and this evening		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	past	what sort and this evening not said here		of people; present property	tree rules
6	fire	present	nothing	things = thing		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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