Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 122

He had something else to say, which made him hesitate in a strange manner.

Who acts: boatman · What happens: have, say, make, hesitate · To what, where: something, boatman, strange manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 something	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 something	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 something	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 manner	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 manner	det
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 manner	amod
15	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hesitate	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	boatman	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	boatman not said here	something not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	make	past		boatman		tree rules
4	hesitate	infinitive	boatman not said here		a strange manner	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in manner=Location

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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