Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 35

They were indeed tears of ice, for her heart was melting towards him through his strong love, and as her tears fell on his burning cheeks he awoke.

Who acts: tears, heart, Joanna · What happens: be, melt, fall, cheek, awake, love · To what, where: tears, strong love, burning

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 (tears, heart, Joanna), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tears	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tears	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 tears	advmod
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tears	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melting	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 melting	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 melting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 melting	aux
12	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tears	acl
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 melting	obl
15	through	through	ADP	_	18 love	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 love	nmod:poss
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 love	amod
18	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 melting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cheeks	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cheeks	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 fell	mark
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tears	nmod:poss
23	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cheeks	nsubj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 burning	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 burning	nmod:poss
27	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
28	cheeks	cheek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tears	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 awoke	nsubj
30	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cheeks	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	tears = tear	tears		of ice; indeed property	tree rules
2	melt	past · progressive	master's heart	tears not said here	Joanna's strong love	towards Joanna	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
3	fall	past	master's tears		Joanna's burning		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on burning=Location
4	cheek	present					tree rules
5	awake	past	Joanna				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	love		Joanna				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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