Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 79

And all this about the two children was mirrored to old Anthony in a single tear, which could soon be wiped away and disappear, but might come again from its source in the heart of the old man.

What happens: mirror, wipe away, disappear, come · To what, where: this, old Anthony, single tear, source

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 mirrored	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 this	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 mirrored	nsubj:pass
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 children	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 this	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mirrored	aux:pass
9	mirrored	mirror	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Anthony	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Anthony	amod
12	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mirrored	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 tear	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tear	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tear	amod
16	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mirrored	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wiped	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 wiped	nsubj:pass
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wiped	aux
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 wiped	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 wiped	aux:pass
22	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tear	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 wiped	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 disappear	cc
25	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 away	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 come	cc
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 mirrored	conj
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 source	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 source	nmod:poss
33	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 heart	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heart	det
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 source	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 man	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 man	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heart	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mirrored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mirror	past · passive	this	old Anthony	a single tear			tree rules
2	wipe away	could · passive	a single tear				away, soon property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	disappear	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	might			pot's source in the heart of the old man	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from source=Initial_Location

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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