Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 17
He felt as if his heart would break with its weight of sorrow, till those who stood round the grave sang a psalm, and the sweet, holy tones brought tears into his eyes, which relieved him.
Who acts: son, heart, grave, sweet holy tones, eyes · What happens: feel, break, stand, sing, bring, relieve · To what, where: psalm, tears, eyes, son
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, heart, grave, sweet holy tones), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | aux |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 weight | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 weight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sorrow | case |
| 13 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weight | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 those | punct |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 those | case |
| 16 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 break | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 those | acl:relcl |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 sang | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grave | det |
| 21 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sang | nsubj |
| 22 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stood | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 psalm | det |
| 24 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sang | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 brought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brought | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tones | det |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tones | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sweet | punct |
| 30 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tones | amod |
| 31 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brought | nsubj |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brought | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brought | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 relieved | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 relieved | nsubj |
| 39 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 relieved | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | son | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | break a condition, not said to happen | would | son's heart | till those | with heart's weight of sorrow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with weight=Instrument | |||
| 3 | stand | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | the grave | a psalm | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | the sweet holy tones | tears | son's eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme into eye=Destination | |||
| 6 | relieve | past | son's eyes | son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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