Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 2

He stood looking at her for some time, and then he wagged his head and said, "Caw, caw; good-day, good-day."

Who acts: He, Caw · What happens: stand, look, wag, say · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, Caw), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wagged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wagged	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 wagged	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wagged	nsubj
13	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wagged	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wagged	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Caw	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Caw	punct
20	Caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caw	punct
22	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Caw	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 day	punct
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 day	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	gerund	He not said here		time	at crow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	wag	past	he	his head	then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Caw and caw				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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