Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 66
I have seen tears in an emperor's eyes," she said, "that is my richest reward.
Who acts: I, nightingale, that · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: tears, eyes, richest reward · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, nightingale, that), 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 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 emperor | case |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reward | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 reward | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 reward | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reward | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 reward | nmod:poss |
| 19 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 reward | amod |
| 20 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | tears | a emperor's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | nightingale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | my richest reward | 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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