Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 60

Yet he who wrote all this has looked at me, as every word flowed from his pen upon my surface.

Who acts: person · What happens: write, look, flow · To what, where: this, word, pen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	4 wrote	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 looked	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 looked	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	aux
8	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wrote	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 word	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	parataxis
15	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 word	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 pen	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pen	nmod:poss
18	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowed	obl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 surface	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 surface	nmod:poss
21	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	person				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present · perfect · passive		this		at me	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	flow	participle		every word not said here	person's pen	upon my surface	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon surface=Location

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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