Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 71

But when they saw her hands they understood what she was doing on their behalf, and the youngest brother wept, and where his tears fell the pain ceased, and the burning blisters vanished.

Who acts: brothers, life, youngest brother, tears, pain, burning blisters · What happens: see, understand, do, weep, fall, cease · To what, where: hands, behalf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (brothers, life, youngest brother, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 understood	nsubj
8	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 doing	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 understood	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 behalf	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 behalf	nmod:poss
15	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wept	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brother	det
19	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wept	nsubj
21	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 fell	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tears	nmod:poss
26	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pain	det
29	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ceased	nsubj
30	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fell	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 vanished	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 vanished	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 blisters	det
34	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 blisters	compound
35	blisters	blister	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 vanished	nsubj
36	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	brothers = brother	life's hands		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
2	understand	past	brothers = brother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · progressive	life		brothers's behalf	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	weep	past	the youngest brother			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fall	past	God's tears			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cease	past	the pain			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	vanish	past	the burning blisters			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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