Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 216
Such tears as these cannot be washed out, even when the nightcap is forgotten.
What happens: not wash out, forget · To what, where: Such tears, nightcap
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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tears | amod |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 tears | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 washed | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 washed | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 washed | aux:pass |
| 8 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 washed | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 forgotten | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 forgotten | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nightcap | det |
| 14 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgotten | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 washed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wash out | can · passive | Such tears as these | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | forget | present · passive | the nightcap | 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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