Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 58

"Red-head," said the soldiers, and little Peter laughed; but when one of them sometimes said to another, "Foxey," he would bite his teeth together and look another way--into the wide world.

Who acts: Red head, little Peter, head · What happens: say, laugh, bite, look · To what, where: soldiers, teeth, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red head, little Peter, head), 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 head	punct
2	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 head	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Red	punct
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 head	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 head	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldiers	det
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laughed	cc
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Peter	amod
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 said	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 said	advmod
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 another	case
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 another	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Foxey	punct
27	Foxey	Foxey	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 another	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bite	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 bite	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bite	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bite	aux
32	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 teeth	nmod:poss
34	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bite	obj
35	together	together	ADV	_	32 bite	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 look	cc
37	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bite	conj
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 look	obj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 world	punct
41	into	into	ADP	_	44 world	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
43	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 world	amod
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 way	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Red head	the soldiers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic
2	laugh	past	little Peter			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Red head not said here		to another; sometimes property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to another=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	bite	would	head	head's teeth	together property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
5	look	infinitive	head not said here	another way and the wide world		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute

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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