Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 25

He pictured it all so plainly to himself, that he smiled even while the tears ran down his cheeks.

Who acts: father, tears · What happens: picture, smile, run down · To what, where: joy, cheeks

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 (father, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pictured	nsubj
2	pictured	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pictured	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 plainly	advmod
6	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	2 pictured	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 plainly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smiled	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 smiled	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 smiled	nsubj
12	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pictured	parataxis
13	even	even	ADV	_	12 smiled	advmod
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 ran	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tears	det
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smiled	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 ran	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cheeks	nmod:poss
20	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ran	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pictured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	picture	past	father	joy	plainly property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	smile	past	father			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run down	past	the tears	father's cheeks		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/25/