Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 227
They were the tears which old Anthony had shed half a century before.
What happens: shed · To what, where: eyes
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shed | aux:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tears | det |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Anthony | amod |
| 7 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shed | aux |
| 9 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 century | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 century | det |
| 12 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shed | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 shed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past · perfect · passive | eyes = eye | century | before property | 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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