Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 100

And Molly and Anthony both wept, but these tears all flowed together into one tear which had the rosy shimmer of joy.

Who acts: Molly, tears, one tear, joy · What happens: weep, flow, have, shimmer · To what, where: one tear, rosy shimmer

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly, tears, one tear, joy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
2	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wept	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Anthony	cc
4	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Molly	conj
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 wept	advmod
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flowed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 flowed	cc
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 tears	det
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flowed	nsubj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 flowed	advmod
12	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 flowed	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 tear	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 tear	nummod
16	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowed	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tear	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shimmer	det
20	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shimmer	amod
21	shimmer	shimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shimmer	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Molly and Anthony			both property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flow	past	this tears		one tear	all, together property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	one tear	the rosy shimmer of joy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shimmer=Patient
4	shimmer		joy				nom shimmer «event intransitive»: of=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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