Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 26

The poet felt as if his own heart were weeping, but in tones of melody like the sound of a woman's voice.

Who acts: poet, own heart · What happens: feel, weep, intonate · To what, where: melody

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, own heart), 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 poet	det
2	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 weeping	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 weeping	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weeping	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 weeping	aux
10	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 felt	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tones	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tones	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 tones	case
14	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 weeping	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 melody	case
16	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tones	nmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 sound	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sound	det
19	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 melody	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 voice	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 voice	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 woman	case
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sound	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the poet			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	weep	past · progressive	poet's own heart		in tones of melody like the sound of a woman's voice	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tone=Theme
3	intonate			melody like the sound of a woman's voice		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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