Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 26

The child said not a word, nor did she cry; but each time the little door was opened she gave a long, long look into the yard.

Who acts: child, girl · What happens: not say, do, cry, open, give · To what, where: word, little door, long long look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 said	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cry	nsubj
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 did	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	obl:unmarked
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 door	amod
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	aux:pass
20	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 gave	advcl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 look	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 look	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 look	amod
27	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 yard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 yard	det
30	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	the child	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	do	past	the child not said here				tree rules
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	girl				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	open	past · passive		the little door	time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	give	past	girl	a long long look		into the yard	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme

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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