Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 44

I was so much affected that I wept tears such as a little mouse can weep, but they were tears of joy.

Who acts: I, tears · What happens: be, weep · To what, where: tears

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 affected	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 affected	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 affected	advmod
5	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wept	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wept	nsubj
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 affected	advcl
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wept	obj
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 mouse	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mouse	amod
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weep	obl
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 weep	aux
16	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tears	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tears	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 tears	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tears	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tears	cop
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 affected	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tears	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 affected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		affect property	tree rules
2	weep	past	I	tears		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
3	weep	can	tears not said here		such a little mouse	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	tears = tear	tears	of joy	tree rules

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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