Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 153
There were tears in the eyes of the old maid, as she spoke of the beloved of her youth, and of their betrothal in the wood.
Who acts: tears, bunch · What happens: be, speak, betroth · To what, where: wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, bunch), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tears | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 maid | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maid | amod |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 beloved | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beloved | det |
| 17 | beloved | beloved | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 youth | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 youth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beloved | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 betrothal | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 betrothal | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 betrothal | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 betrothal | nmod:poss |
| 25 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 betrothal | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | tears in the eyes of the old maid | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | bunch | of the beloved of bunch's youth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | betroth | tears = tear | the wood | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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