Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 69
“I have shed pewter tears!
Who acts: pewter soldier · What happens: shed · To what, where: pewter tears
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pewter soldier), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | aux |
| 4 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | pewter | pewter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tears | compound |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shed | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed in a quote | present · perfect | the pewter soldier = soldier | pewter tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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