Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 37
But she was kind and gentle to him; she poured out his tea, and sang to him; but the song had not the old tone in it, although it was wonderfully beautiful, and made his heart feel ready to burst.
Who acts: child, song, heart · What happens: be, pour out, sing, have, make, feel · To what, where: Knud, tea, old tone, tone, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, song, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 kind | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gentle | cc |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kind | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gentle | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 poured | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 poured | nsubj |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 poured | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tea | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sang | cc |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poured | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sang | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 song | det |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 tone | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tone | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tone | amod |
| 28 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tone | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 beautiful | punct |
| 32 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 36 beautiful | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 beautiful | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 beautiful | cop |
| 35 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 36 beautiful | advmod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 had | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 heart | nmod:poss |
| 41 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 42 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 made | xcomp |
| 43 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 feel | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 burst | mark |
| 45 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 ready | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | child | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | child not said here | Knud | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pour out | past | child | Knud's tea | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | child not said here | Knud | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the song | the old tone | tone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | past | song | beautiful, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | past | Knud's heart | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | feel | infinitive | Knud's heart not said here | ready property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | burst | to-infinitive | Knud's heart not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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