Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 31

She fixed her eyes upon him with such a kind and sad expression, just as if she wished to say something to him.

Who acts: wife · What happens: fix, wish, say · To what, where: eyes, something, wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixed	nsubj
2	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fixed	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 kind	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 kind	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 expression	cc
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 expression	amod
13	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wished	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	19 wished	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 wished	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 wished	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wished	xcomp
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 say	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fix	past	wife	wife's eyes		upon wind; with such kind and sad expression	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with kind=Co-Patient
2	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	wife				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here	something	wind		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to he=Recipient

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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