Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 11

He was quite unchanged, the dear old Moon, and had the same face exactly that he used to show when he peered down upon me through the willow trees on the moor.

Who acts: MOON · What happens: be, have, use, show, peer down · To what, where: same face, willow trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MOON), 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	4 unchanged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unchanged	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 unchanged	advmod
4	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Moon	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Moon	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Moon	amod
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 unchanged	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unchanged	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 face	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 face	amod
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	19 used	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 used	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 used	nsubj
19	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 used	xcomp
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 peered	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 peered	nsubj
24	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 show	ccomp
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 peered	advmod
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 peered	obl
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 trees	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trees	det
30	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trees	compound
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 peered	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 moor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moor	det
34	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trees	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unchanged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	MOON			unchanged property	tree rules
2	have	past		the same face			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
3	use	past	MOON			exactly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	show	to-infinitive	MOON not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	peer down	past	MOON		the willow trees on the moor	upon me; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon i=Theme

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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