Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 94

I can endure it no longer," said he; "how beautiful it looks when it stretches out its tongue?"

Who acts: I, Man, it, gleam · What happens: endure, say, look, stretch out · To what, where: gleam, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Man, it, gleam), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 endure	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 endure	aux
3	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 endure	obj
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 longer	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 longer	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 endure	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 beautiful	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 beautiful	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 beautiful	advmod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 endure	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looks	nsubj
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 beautiful	ccomp
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 stretches	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stretches	nsubj
19	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looks	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stretches	compound:prt
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tongue	nmod:poss
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretches	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 endure	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 endure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	endure	can	I	gleam		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Man		long property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	present	it			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	stretch out	present	gleam	gleam's tongue		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient

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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