Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 64

The nightingale sang so sweetly that the tears came into the emperor's eyes, and then rolled down his cheeks, as her song became still more touching and went to every one's heart.

Who acts: nightingale, tears, song · What happens: sing, come, roll down, become, go · To what, where: eyes, cheeks, more touching, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale, tears, song), 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	2 nightingale	det
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sweetly	advmod
5	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tears	det
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 emperor	det
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eyes	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 emperor	case
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rolled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rolled	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 rolled	advmod
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 rolled	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cheeks	nmod:poss
21	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rolled	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 became	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 song	nmod:poss
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rolled	parataxis
27	still	still	ADV	_	29 touching	advmod
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 touching	amod
29	touching	touching	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 became	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 heart	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heart	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 one	case
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the nightingale				sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the tears		the emperor's eyes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location
3	roll down	past	the nightingale not said here	emperor's cheeks		then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent
4	become	past	nightingale's song	more touching				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	go	past	nightingale's song not said here		every one's heart			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location
6	sing		nightingale					nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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