Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 10
The little pale daughter was dreaming too, for her eyes were wet with tears.
Who acts: little pale daughter, eyes · What happens: dream, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little pale daughter, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daughter | amod |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dreaming | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dreaming | aux |
| 6 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 dreaming | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wet | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 wet | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wet | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wet | cop |
| 13 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dreaming | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wet | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreaming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past · progressive | the little pale daughter | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | daughter's eyes | with tears; wet property | 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: «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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