Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 85

A big turbot was making himself broad in front, quietly enough, but not without casting some suspicious glances aside.

Who acts: big turbot · What happens: make, not cast · To what, where: turbot, suspicious glances

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (big turbot), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 turbot	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turbot	amod
3	turbot	turbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 making	obj
7	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 making	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quietly	punct
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 making	advmod
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 quietly	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 casting	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 casting	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 casting	advmod
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 casting	mark
17	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 making	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 glances	det
19	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glances	amod
20	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 casting	obj
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	17 casting	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	a big turbot	turbot				broad, quietly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
2	not cast	gerund	a big turbot not said here	some suspicious glances				aside property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Product

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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