Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 83
And tears gushed from his eyes like a stream of mercy and love, the cooling waters of which extinguished the eternal fire of hell.
Who acts: tears · What happens: gush, extinguish, fire · To what, where: tears, eyes, cooling waters, hell
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 extinguished | cc |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 extinguished | nsubj |
| 3 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tears | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gushed | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mercy | case |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stream | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 love | cc |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mercy | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waters | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waters | det |
| 16 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waters | compound |
| 17 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 extinguished | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 extinguished | nsubj |
| 20 | extinguished | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 22 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fire | amod |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 extinguished | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hell | case |
| 25 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fire | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 extinguished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gush | participle | tears not said here | pastor's eyes like a stream of mercy and love | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source | ||||
| 2 | extinguish | past | tears | the cooling waters | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fire | hell | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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