Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 4

He looked at him, as he spoke, with mild, earnest eyes, drew a deep sigh, and died; yet it appeared as if he still slept.

Who acts: God, it · What happens: look, speak, draw, die, appear, sleep · To what, where: deep sigh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, it), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spoke	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 spoke	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eyes	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
11	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eyes	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mild	punct
13	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 eyes	amod
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spoke	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sigh	det
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sigh	amod
19	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 died	cc
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 appeared	punct
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	26 appeared	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 appeared	nsubj
26	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 slept	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 slept	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 slept	nsubj
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 slept	advmod
31	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 appeared	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	God			at John	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	God			with mild earnest eyes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with eye=Co-Agent
3	draw	past		a deep sigh			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
4	die	past					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	appear	past	it				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sleep	past	God		still		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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