Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 81
Yes, she really was joyful at seeing the friend of her childhood once more, and the tears even stood in her eyes.
Who acts: girl, tears · What happens: be, see, stand · To what, where: friend, eyes
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 (girl, 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 joyful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 joyful | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 joyful | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joyful | cop |
| 6 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | mark |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 joyful | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 childhood | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friend | nmod |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 seeing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tears | det |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 stood | advmod |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joyful | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 joyful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | joyful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | girl not said here | the friend of girl's childhood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the tears | girl's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location |
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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