Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 55

If he dried his eyes with his nightcap, then the tear and the picture would be crushed; but the source of the tears remained and welled up again in his heart.

Who acts: picture, source · What happens: dry, crush, remain, well up · To what, where: eyes, picture, heart

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 (picture, source), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 dried	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dried	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dried	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 nightcap	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nightcap	nmod:poss
8	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tear	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tear	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tear	det
12	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nightcap	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crushed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 picture	det
15	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crushed	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 crushed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 crushed	aux:pass
18	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nightcap	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 remained	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 source	det
22	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remained	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tears	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tears	det
25	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 source	nmod
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 welled	cc
28	welled	well	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 remained	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 welled	compound:prt
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 welled	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 welled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past	picture	picture's eyes			with picture's nightcap and the tear	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with nightcap=Instrument
2	crush	would · passive		the picture				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	remain	past	the source of the tears					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	well up	past	the source of the tears not said here		picture's heart	again		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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