Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 47

The neighbors parted with tears, the children wept sadly; but their parents promised that they should write to each other at least once a year.

Who acts: neighbors, children, parents · What happens: part, weep, promise, write · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (neighbors, children, parents), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbors	det
2	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 parted	nsubj
3	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 tears	case
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 parted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wept	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wept	nsubj
9	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 parted	conj
10	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	9 wept	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 promised	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 parents	nmod:poss
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 promised	nsubj
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 parted	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 write	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 write	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 write	aux
19	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promised	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	19 write	obl
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 least	case
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 once	obl
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 write	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 once	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	part	past	the neighbors		with tears	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tear=Co-Patient
2	weep	past	the children		sadly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	past	neighbors's parents			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	write	should	neighbors = neighbor	each	once property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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