Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 133

And then he told his wife about the old house and the old man, and of the tin soldier which he had sent across, because he thought the old man was lonely; and he related the story so clearly that tears came into the eyes of the young wife for the old house and the old man. "

Who acts: riddance, old man, tears · What happens: tell, send, think, be, relate, come · To what, where: wife, story, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riddance, old man, 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	_	4 told	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 man	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 soldier	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
19	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soldier	compound
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sent	nsubj:pass
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
25	across	across	ADV	_	24 sent	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lonely	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lonely	cop
34	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thought	ccomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 related	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 related	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 related	nsubj
38	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 story	det
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 related	obj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 clearly	advmod
42	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	38 related	advmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 came	mark
44	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 came	nsubj
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 related	advcl
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 eyes	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 eyes	det
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 came	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 wife	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wife	det
51	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 wife	amod
52	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 eyes	nmod
53	for	for	ADP	_	56 house	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 house	det
55	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 house	amod
56	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 came	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 man	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 man	det
59	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 man	amod
60	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 house	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	riddance		riddance's wife		then	about the old house and the old man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about house=Topic
2	send	past · perfect · passive						of the tin soldier; across property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of soldier=Initial_Location
3	think speech: other	past	riddance						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the old man					lonely property	tree rules
5	relate	past	riddance	the story				clearly property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
6	come	past	tears			the eyes of the young wife		for the old house and the old man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=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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