Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 17

And the old grandfather nodded again; and the more he looked at Holger Danske, the more satisfied he felt that he had carved a good image of him.

Who acts: old grandfather, grandfather · What happens: nod, look, feel, carve, image · To what, where: good image, Holger

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 (old grandfather, 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	_	5 nodded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandfather	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandfather	amod
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nodded	nsubj
5	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 nodded	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 more	det
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 looked	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nodded	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 Holger	case
14	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
15	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Holger	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 satisfied	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 satisfied	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 satisfied	advmod
19	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Holger	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 satisfied	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 carved	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carved	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 carved	aux
25	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 felt	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 image	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 image	amod
28	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carved	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 image	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	the old grandfather		again		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	grandfather			at Holger	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at holger=Theme
3	feel	past	grandfather				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	carve	past · perfect	grandfather	a good image of Holger			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme
5	image			Holger			nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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