Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 6

But again and again he saw her dark, beaming eyes fixed upon him; and once, when he asked her a question, she could answer him even better than the other children.

Who acts: book, Sarah · What happens: see, beam, fix, ask, answer · To what, where: dark, eyes, question, Sarah, book

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, Sarah), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 again	cc
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 again	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dark	nmod:poss
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beaming	punct
10	beaming	beam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	advcl
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beaming	obj
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 eyes	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fixed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 once	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 once	cc
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 saw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 asked	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 question	det
24	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 answer	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answer	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 answer	aux
28	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 question	acl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answer	obj
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 better	advmod
31	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 answer	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	35 children	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 children	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 children	amod
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 better	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	book	Sarah's dark		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dark=Stimulus
2	beam	gerund	book not said here	eyes				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	fix	participle		eyes not said here			upon book	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	book	a question	Sarah			tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	could	Sarah	a question not said here	book		well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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