Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 229
The tree of knowledge no longer wept tears of blood, for the dewdrops shone like glittering stars.
Who acts: tree, dewdrops · What happens: weep, shine, glitter · To what, where: tears, stars
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, dewdrops), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 knowledge | case |
| 4 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tree | nmod |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 wept | advmod |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wept | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blood | case |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tears | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shone | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 shone | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dewdrops | det |
| 14 | dewdrops | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shone | nsubj |
| 15 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wept | conj |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 17 glittering | mark |
| 17 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 shone | advcl |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 glittering | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the tree of knowledge | tears of blood | long property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 2 | shine | past | the dewdrops | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | glitter | gerund | the dewdrops not said here | stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
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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