Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 2
Two large tears rolled down the king's cheeks, and he went home with doubt in his heart, and at night he pretended to sleep, but there came no real sleep to his eyes, for he saw Eliza get up every night and disappear in her own chamber.
Who acts: Two large tears, king, Eliza · What happens: roll down, go, pretend, sleep, come, see · To what, where: cheeks, real sleep, own chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (Two large tears, king, Eliza), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 tears | nummod |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tears | amod |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tears | acl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 rolled | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tears | parataxis |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 doubt | case |
| 16 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 doubt | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pretended | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pretended | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pretended | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pretended | nsubj |
| 25 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 pretended | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 came | expl |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pretended | parataxis |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 sleep | det |
| 33 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sleep | amod |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sleep | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 saw | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 came | conj |
| 42 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 get | nsubj |
| 43 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 saw | ccomp |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 get | compound:prt |
| 45 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 night | det |
| 46 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 get | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 disappear | cc |
| 48 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 get | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 chamber | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 51 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 chamber | amod |
| 52 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 disappear | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll down | participle | Two large tears not said here | the king's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | king | with doubt in king's heart; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with doubt=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pretend | past | king | night | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come | past | no real sleep | there | to king's eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleep=Theme | |||
| 6 | see | past | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | get up | infinitive | Eliza | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | disappear | present | Eliza not said here | Eliza's own chamber | 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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