Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 34
As they knelt at the altar, Joanna bent her head over him, and cold, icy tears fell on his face from her eyes.
Who acts: tones, Joanna, cold icy tears · What happens: kneel, bend, fall · To what, where: altar, head, face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tones, Joanna, cold icy 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 knelt | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bent | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 altar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 altar | det |
| 6 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
| 8 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | nsubj |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tears | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 18 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tears | amod |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bent | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | tones = tone | the altar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at altar=Location | ||||
| 2 | bend | past | Joanna | master's head | over Knud | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme over he=Location | |||
| 3 | fall | past | cold icy tears | Joanna's face | from master's eyes | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=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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