Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 44

Oh, what bitter tears she shed! and she could not open her heart to any one for relief.

Who acts: bitter tears, dream · What happens: shed, not open · To what, where: heart, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter tears, dream), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 shed	obj
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tears	amod
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shed	nsubj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shed	nsubj
7	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 shed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 open	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 open	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 open	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 open	advmod
13	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shed	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heart	nmod:poss
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 relief	case
20	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past	bitter tears						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Source
2	not open	could	dream	dream's heart	any one for relief				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient to one=Recipient

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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