Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 15
And when he had finished he looked at the whole figure, and thought of all he had heard and read, and what he had that evening related to his little grandson.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: finish, look, think, hear, read, have
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 looked | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 figure | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 figure | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 figure | amod |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 read | cc |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 all | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 had | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | conj |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 evening | det |
| 28 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 29 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 had | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 grandson | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 grandson | amod |
| 33 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 related | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | grandfather | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | past | grandfather | at the whole figure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at figure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | grandfather not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | grandfather | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | read | infinitive | grandfather not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | past | grandfather | evening | related property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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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