Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 54
The tears came into the hangman's eyes, but the king's will was stronger than the tears; and every week two little teeth were brought to him on a silver plate; he had demanded them, and he had them.
Who acts: tears, brother · What happens: come, be, bring, demand, have · To what, where: eyes, week, brother, silver plate, king
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tears | det |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hangman | det |
| 6 | hangman | hangman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 hangman | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stronger | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stronger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stronger | aux |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stronger | cop |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tears | det |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stronger | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 brought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 brought | cc |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 week | det |
| 23 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 teeth | nummod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 teeth | amod |
| 26 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 week | nmod |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brought | aux:pass |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 brought | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 plate | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 plate | det |
| 33 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 plate | compound |
| 34 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 demanded | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 demanded | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 demanded | aux |
| 38 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 brought | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 demanded | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 had | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 had | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 had | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 had | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the tears | the hangman's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | future | than the tears; strong property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | every week two little teeth | brother | a silver plate | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past · perfect | brother | king | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | have | past | brother | king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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