Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 56
The good neighbors wept, although the news was so pleasant; but they wept tears of joy.
Who acts: good neighbors, news, neighbors · What happens: weep, be · To what, where: tears
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 (good neighbors, news, neighbors), 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 | 3 neighbors | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 neighbors | amod |
| 3 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleasant | punct |
| 6 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 pleasant | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleasant | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleasant | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 pleasant | advmod |
| 11 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wept | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wept | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 wept | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wept | nsubj |
| 15 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | conj |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wept | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tears | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the good neighbors | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the news | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | neighbors = neighbor | tears of joy | 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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