Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 149
There are tears in your eyes, too, but they become you well.
Who acts: tears · What happens: be, become · To what, where: eyes, you
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), 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 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 are | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 become | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 become | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 become | nsubj |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 become | obj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 become | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | tears | your eyes; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location | ||||
| 2 | become | present | tears = tear | you | well property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient you=Result |
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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