Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 21

At her wedding he was the merriest among the guests, but in the stillness of night he wept: if the public had seen his distorted face then, they would have applauded rapturously.

Who acts: love, merriest, guests, melancholy · What happens: be, weep, see, applaud, wed · To what, where: wedding, public

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, merriest, guests, melancholy), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 wedding	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wedding	nmod:poss
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 merriest	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 merriest	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 merriest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merriest	det
7	merriest	merry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 wept	nsubj
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 guests	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guests	det
10	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 merriest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wept	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 stillness	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stillness	det
15	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wept	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stillness	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wept	nsubj
19	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 seen	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 public	det
23	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 applauded	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
27	distorted	distorted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 face	amod
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obj
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 seen	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 applauded	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 applauded	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 applauded	aux
34	applauded	applaud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 wept	conj
35	rapturously	rapturously	ADV	_	34 applauded	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	love		melancholy's wedding		among the guests; merry property	tree rules
2	weep	past	the merriest				in the stillness of night	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stillness=Theme
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the public		then		tree rules
4	applaud	would · perfect	guests = guest				rapturously property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	wed		melancholy					nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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