Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 7

Poor John! he knelt down by the bed, kissed his dead father's hand, and wept many, many bitter tears.

Who acts: Poor John · What happens: kneel down, kiss, weep · To what, where: hand, many many bitter tears

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 (Poor John), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 John	amod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knelt	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knelt	nsubj
5	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 knelt	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knelt	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kissed	punct
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knelt	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 father	amod
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hand	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 father	case
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kissed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wept	cc
19	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knelt	conj
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tears	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 many	punct
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tears	amod
23	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tears	amod
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wept	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	Poor John		by the bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location
2	kiss	past	Poor John not said here	John's dead father's hand		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
3	weep	past	Poor John not said here	many many bitter tears		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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.

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