Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 53

And so it was with Anthony; often the scalding tears, like pearly drops, would fall from his eyes to the coverlet and roll on the floor with a sound as if one of his heartstrings had broken.

Who acts: agony, scalding tears · What happens: be, fall, break · 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: who acts (agony, scalding tears), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 so	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	18 fall	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Anthony	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Anthony	cop
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Anthony	case
6	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 so	vocative
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 tears	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	11 tears	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tears	det
10	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tears	compound
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fall	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drops	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 drops	case
14	pearly	pearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 drops	amod
15	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tears	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tears	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fall	aux
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fall	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 coverlet	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coverlet	det
24	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 roll	cc
26	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coverlet	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 floor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 sound	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sound	det
32	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 floor	nmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 one	case
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 one	mark
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 broken	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 heartstrings	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 heartstrings	nmod:poss
38	heartstrings	heartstring	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 broken	obl
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 broken	aux
40	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 fall	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	agony		with Anthony	tree rules
2	fall	would	the scalding tears and pearly drops	Anthony's eyes	to the coverlet and roll; on the floor with a sound	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location to coverlet=Destination
3	break	past · perfect			as one; of Anthony's heartstrings	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of heartstring=Co-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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