Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 143
There were tears in Emily's eyes, but in the young man's eyes shone courage and confidence; and the sun shone through the window, and cast his beams on the pair, and gave them his blessing.
Who acts: tears, eyes, sun · What happens: be, shine, cast, give, beam, bless · To what, where: courage, sun, window, beams, pair, blessing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, eyes, sun), 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 | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 5 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Emily | case |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tears | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shone | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 shone | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shone | nsubj |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 17 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shone | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 confidence | cc |
| 19 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 courage | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 cast | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cast | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cast | nsubj |
| 24 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sun | acl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 window | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 window | det |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cast | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cast | cc |
| 30 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beams | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cast | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 pair | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pair | det |
| 35 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cast | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gave | cc |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cast | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | iobj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 41 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | tears in Emily's eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the young man's eyes | courage and confidence | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | participle | the sun not said here | the window | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||||
| 4 | cast | past | the sun | sun's beams | the pair | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme on pair=Destination | |||
| 5 | give | past | the sun not said here | sun's blessing | beams = beam | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 6 | beam | sun | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | bless | sun | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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