Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 58

He looked at her, but he did not speak, he certainly did not know who she was.

Who acts: boy, end · What happens: look, not speak, not know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, end), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 speak	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 speak	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 speak	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 speak	advmod
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	16 know	advmod
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 speak	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 know	ccomp
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 who	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 who	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	boy	at end		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	boy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	boy		certainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	end			tree rules

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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