Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 40
"Will you not shake hands with your sister at parting, my old playfellow?" and she smiled through the tears that were rolling down her cheeks.
Who acts: you, child, tears · What happens: not shake, smile, roll down · To what, where: hands, parting, tears, cheeks
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 (you, child, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shake | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 shake | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 shake | advmod |
| 5 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shake | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 parting | case |
| 11 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shake | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 playfellow | amod |
| 15 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shake | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smiled | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smiled | nsubj |
| 20 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shake | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 tears | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tears | det |
| 23 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smiled | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rolling | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rolling | aux |
| 26 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 tears | acl:relcl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 cheeks | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rolling | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shake in a quote | future | you | hands | parting | with your sister | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme playfellow=Destination | ||
| 2 | smile | past | child | the tears | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | roll down | past · progressive | the tears | child's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent |
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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