Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 129
Two of her tears wetted his eyes, and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before.
Who acts: tears, son · What happens: wett, grow, see · To what, where: Two
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, son), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wetted | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tears | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wetted | nsubj |
| 5 | wetted | wett | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wetted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wetted | conj |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 clear | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 grew | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 before | advmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 see | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wetted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wett | past | RAPUNZEL's tears | Two | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | tears = tear | clear property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | could | son | with tears = tear; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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