Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 52
But this was scarcely an agreeable entertainment; for thoughts of olden memories raise the curtains from the past, and sometimes pierce the heart with painful recollections till the agony brings tears to the waking eyes.
Who acts: this, agreeable entertainment, agony · What happens: be, raise, pierce, bring, think · To what, where: agreeable entertainment, curtains, past, heart, tears, waking 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: who acts (this, agreeable entertainment, agony), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 entertainment | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 entertainment | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entertainment | cop |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 entertainment | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 entertainment | det |
| 6 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 entertainment | amod |
| 7 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raise | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 thoughts | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 thoughts | case |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 raise | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 memories | case |
| 12 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 memories | amod |
| 13 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thoughts | nmod |
| 14 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 curtains | det |
| 16 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 raise | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 past | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 past | det |
| 19 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raise | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pierce | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pierce | cc |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 pierce | advmod |
| 23 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 raise | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 heart | det |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pierce | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 recollections | case |
| 27 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 recollections | amod |
| 28 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pierce | obl |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 brings | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 agony | det |
| 31 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brings | nsubj |
| 32 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pierce | advcl |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brings | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 eyes | det |
| 36 | waking | waking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eyes | compound |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brings | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a agreeable entertainment | scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raise | present | a agreeable entertainment | the curtains | the past | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme from past=Destination | |||
| 3 | pierce | infinitive | a agreeable entertainment not said here | the heart | with painful recollections; sometimes property | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with recollection=Instrument | |||
| 4 | bring | present | the agony | tears | the waking eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to eye=Destination | |||
| 5 | think | olden memories | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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