Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 42

It was quite like the old one, and people said, "Why, yonder is the mill on the hill, proud to look at!"

Who acts: family, people · What happens: be, say, look · To what, where: mill, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 one	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Why	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mill	punct
16	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	19 mill	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mill	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mill	det
19	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mill	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proud	punct
24	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proud	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	26 look	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	family			like the old one	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		the mill	the hill	yonder property	tree rules
4	look in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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