Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 213
Where now were the tears he had shed?
What happens: be, shed · To what, where: tears
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: 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 shed | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tears | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tears | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tears | det |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shed | aux |
| 8 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the tears | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shed | past · perfect · passive | the tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
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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