Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 188
He had no tears to shed, and he felt no pain; no thought of Molly came into his mind.
Who acts: weather, thought · What happens: have, shed, feel, come, think, mind · To what, where: tears, pain, mind, Molly
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 (weather, thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7955): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 tears | det |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 shed | mark |
| 6 | shed | shed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tears | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 pain | det |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 thought | det |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Molly | case |
| 17 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 mind | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | weather | no tears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shed | to-infinitive | weather not said here | no tears not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | weather | no pain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | no thought of Molly | weather's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | think | Molly | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | mind | weather | nom mind «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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