Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 91

When the mother and daughter heard who Jurgen was, and how innocently he had suffered, they looked at him in a still more friendly way; and pretty Clara's eyes had a look of especial interest as she listened to his story.

Who acts: mother, Jurgen, eyes, daughter · What happens: hear, be, suffer, look, have, listen · To what, where: friendly way, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Jurgen, eyes, daughter), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughter	cc
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	advcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	6 heard	ccomp
8	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 who	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 who	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 suffered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 suffered	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 innocently	advmod
13	innocently	innocently	ADV	_	16 suffered	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 suffered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 suffered	aux
16	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 heard	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
24	still	still	ADV	_	26 friendly	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 friendly	advmod
26	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
30	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	34 had	advmod
31	Clara	Clara	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Clara	case
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 look	det
36	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 interest	case
38	especial	especial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 interest	amod
39	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	nmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 listened	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 listened	nsubj
42	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 had	advcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 story	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 story	nmod:poss
45	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 listened	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the mother and daughter				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Jurgen				tree rules
3	suffer	past · perfect	Jurgen			innocently property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	past	mother		a friendly way	at Jurgen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	have	past	Clara's eyes	a look of especial interest		pretty property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
6	listen	past	daughter			to Jurgen's story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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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