Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 87

The tears he could not restrain rolled down his cheeks, and he was unable to utter a single word; it seemed as if he had been struck dumb.

Who acts: tears, father, it · What happens: not restrain, roll down, be, utter, seem, strike · To what, where: rolled cheeks, single word, father

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 (tears, father, it), 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 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 restrain	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 restrain	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 restrain	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 restrain	advmod
6	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cheeks	amod
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 rolled	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cheeks	nmod:poss
10	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 restrain	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 unable	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 unable	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 unable	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 unable	cop
15	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 restrain	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 utter	mark
17	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 unable	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 word	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 word	amod
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 utter	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 unable	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 struck	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 struck	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 struck	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 struck	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 struck	aux:pass
29	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 seemed	xcomp
30	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 struck	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 restrain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not restrain	could	the tears	father's rolled cheeks		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cheek=Eventuality
2	roll down	participle				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	father		unable property	tree rules
4	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	father not said here	a single word		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	strike a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		father	dumb property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument

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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