Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 85

And how handsome the young prince looked, as he pressed the hands of all present and smiled at them, while the music resounded through the clear night air.

Who acts: prince, music · What happens: look, press, smile, resound · To what, where: hands, clear night air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, music), 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 handsome	advmod
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looked	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handsome	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pressed	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 pressed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pressed	nsubj
11	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hands	det
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pressed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 present	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 present	det
16	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hands	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 smiled	cc
18	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pressed	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smiled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 resounded	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 resounded	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 music	det
24	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 resounded	nsubj
25	resounded	resound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pressed	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	30 air	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
28	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 air	amod
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 air	compound
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 resounded	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past				handsome property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	press	past	prince	the hands of all present			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	smile	past	prince not said here			at hands = hand	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	resound	past	the music		the clear night air		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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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