Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 15
Now came the time for John to guess what she was thinking of; and oh, how kindly she looked at him as she spoke.
Who acts: princess · What happens: come, guess, think, look, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 John | case |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 guess | mark |
| 8 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 thinking | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thinking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thinking | aux |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 guess | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thinking | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 16 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 looked | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 oh | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 kindly | advmod |
| 19 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 spoke | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 spoke | nsubj |
| 26 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 looked | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | now; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | guess | to-infinitive | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · progressive | princess | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | princess | at John; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | princess | vn talk-37.5 «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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