Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 18

I have heard them before; I am Night; I saw thy tears whilst thou sang'st them!”

Who acts: I, thou · What happens: hear, be, see, sang'st · To what, where: songs, Night, tears

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	before	before	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 Night	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Night	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Night	cop
9	Night	Night	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 tears	nmod:poss
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
15	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	17 sang'st	mark
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 sang'st	nsubj
17	sang'st	sang'st	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sang'st	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I	songs = song	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is a	present	I	Night		tree rules
3	see	past	I	thy tears		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus
4	sang'st	past	thou	songs = song		tree rules

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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