Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 26

"And it does one good to look at you also, old wife," said the merchant. "

Who acts: merchant · What happens: look, say · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 good	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 good	nummod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	csubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 look	obl
11	also	also	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wife	amod
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 merchant	det
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	to-infinitive						at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the merchant						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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