Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 18
I am Night, and I saw your tears flow as you sang."
Who acts: I, tears, you · What happens: be, see, flow, sing · To what, where: Night · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. 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, you), 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 | 3 Night | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Night | cop |
| 3 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Night | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flow | nsubj |
| 10 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 sang | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flow | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Night | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | flow | present | your tears | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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