Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 56

One could look at them so long, that it had an effect upon the thoughts, and these reacted upon the stones, as if they were telling of old times; at least it had been so with the man who was in search of the Story.

Who acts: One, stone, Daughters, man · What happens: look, have, react, tell, be · To what, where: effect, these, least, search · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, stone, Daughters, man), 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	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 look	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 effect	det
13	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 thoughts	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thoughts	det
16	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 effect	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reacted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 reacted	cc
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 reacted	nsubj:pass
20	reacted	react	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 had	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 stones	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stones	det
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reacted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 telling	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 telling	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 telling	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 telling	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 telling	aux
29	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 reacted	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 times	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 times	amod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 telling	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 man	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 least	case
35	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 man	nmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 man	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 man	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 man	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	42 man	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 man	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 search	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 search	cop
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 search	case
46	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 man	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Story	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Story	det
49	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 search	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	could	One				at Daughters = daughter; long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	have	past	stone	a effect			upon the thoughts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
3	react	participle · passive		these			upon the stones	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Daughters = daughter			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past · perfect	stone		least		with the man and search	tree rules
6	is	past	the man and search		search		of the Story	tree rules

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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