Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 78

"She will make a good housewife," said the old goblin, and then saluted her with his eyes instead of drinking her health; for he did not drink much.

Who acts: daughter, old goblin, housewife · What happens: make, say, salute, drink, not drink · To what, where: good housewife, daughter, health · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, old goblin, housewife), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 housewife	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 housewife	amod
7	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goblin	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goblin	amod
13	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saluted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saluted	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 saluted	advmod
17	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saluted	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saluted	obl
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 drinking	mark
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 health	nmod:poss
26	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drinking	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 drink	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 drink	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 drink	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 drink	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 drink	advmod
32	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	conj
33	much	much	ADV	_	32 drink	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	future	daughter	a good housewife			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old goblin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	salute	past		daughter	then	with housewife's eyes	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	drink	gerund	the old goblin not said here	daughter's health			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient
5	not drink	past · do-support	housewife				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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