Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 20

He and his sister, two years older than himself, had often wept scalding tears over the story of Him who suffered death on the cross for us all.

Who acts: story · What happens: weep, scald, suffer · To what, where: boy, tears, story, death, cross

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wept	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sister	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 He	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 older	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 older	obl:unmarked
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sister	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 older	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sister	punct
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wept	aux
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 wept	advmod
14	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	scalding	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 wept	xcomp
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scalding	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 story	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scalding	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Him	case
21	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 story	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 suffered	nsubj
23	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 story	acl:relcl
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suffered	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 cross	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cross	det
27	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suffered	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 us	case
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 cross	nmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 us	nmod:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past · perfect · passive		boy		often property	tree rules
2	scald	gerund		tears	the story of boy		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
3	suffer	past	the story of boy	death	the cross for us		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus

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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