Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 11

But then they would warm copper pennies on the stove, and hold the warm pennies against the frozen pane; there would be very soon a little round hole through which they could peep, and the soft bright eyes of the little boy and girl would beam through the hole at each window as they looked at each other.

Who acts: peas, soft bright eyes · What happens: warm, hold, freeze, be, peep, beam · To what, where: copper pennies, stove, warm pennies, frozen pane, hole

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, soft bright eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 warm	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 warm	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warm	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	aux
5	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pennies	compound
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warm	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stove	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stove	det
10	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warm	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hold	cc
13	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pennies	det
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pennies	amod
16	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hold	obj
17	against	against	ADP	_	20 pane	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pane	det
19	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 pane	amod
20	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pennies	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 be	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 be	expl
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 be	aux
24	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hold	conj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 soon	advmod
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 be	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hole	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hole	amod
29	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hole	amod
30	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 soon	nsubj
31	through	through	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 peep	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 peep	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 peep	aux
35	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hole	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 beam	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 beam	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 eyes	det
39	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 eyes	amod
40	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 eyes	amod
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 beam	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 boy	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 boy	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 boy	amod
45	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eyes	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 girl	cc
47	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 boy	conj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 beam	aux
49	beam	beam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hold	conj
50	through	through	ADP	_	52 hole	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 hole	det
52	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 beam	obl
53	at	at	ADP	_	55 window	case
54	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	55 window	det
55	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 beam	obl
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 looked	mark
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 looked	nsubj
58	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 beam	advcl
59	at	at	ADP	_	60 each	case
60	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	58 looked	obl
61	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 each	fixed
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	would	peas = pea	copper pennies	the stove	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent penny=Patient
2	hold	present		the warm pennies	the frozen pane			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent penny=Theme against pane=Location
3	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	be	would			there		soon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	peep	could	peas = pea				through a little round hole	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through which=Theme
6	beam	would	the soft bright eyes of the little boy and girl		the hole		at each window	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Location
7	look	past	peas = pea				at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=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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