Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 9

His very sorrow and melancholy did but increase the comic dryness of his sharply-cut features, and increased the laughter of the audience, who showered plaudits on their favourite.

Who acts: sorrow, audience, public · What happens: increase, shower, sorrow, feature · To what, where: comic dryness, laughter, plaudits, favourite

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 (sorrow, audience, public), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sorrow	nmod:poss
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 sorrow	advmod
3	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increase	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 melancholy	cc
5	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorrow	conj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 increase	aux
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 increase	cc
8	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dryness	det
10	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dryness	amod
11	dryness	dryness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increase	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 features	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 features	nmod:poss
14	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	17 features	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sharply	punct
16	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 features	compound
17	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dryness	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 increased	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 increased	cc
20	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 increase	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 laughter	det
22	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 increased	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 audience	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 audience	det
25	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laughter	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showered	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 showered	nsubj
28	showered	shower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 audience	acl:relcl
29	plaudits	plaudit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 showered	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 favourite	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 favourite	nmod:poss
32	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 showered	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 increase	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	increase	past · do-support	public's sorrow and melancholy	the comic dryness of public's cut features		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer dryness=Patient
2	increase	past		the laughter of the audience		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer laughter=Patient
3	shower	past	the audience	plaudits	sorrow's favourite	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plaudit=Theme on favourite=Destination
4	sorrow		public			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
5	feature		public			nom feature «cognition 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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