Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 15

His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewdrops; and there came by a roebuck, and said, 'What ailest thee, that thou weepest blue and red tears?'

Who acts: eyes, that · What happens: be, glitter, come, say, ail, weep · To what, where: thee, blue tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, that), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 tears	case
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glittering	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 glittering	cc
9	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heavy	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 colors	case
11	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 glittering	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 dewdrops	case
13	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 colors	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 came	expl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 roebuck	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 roebuck	det
20	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ailest	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 ailest	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 ailest	obj
27	ailest	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 ailest	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 weepest	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 weepest	nsubj
31	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 weepest	nsubj
32	weepest	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	conj
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tears	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 red	cc
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blue	conj
36	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 weepest	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Olympus's eyes			with tears; heavy property	tree rules
2	glitter	gerund	Olympus's eyes not said here			with colors like dewdrops	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme
3	come	past			there	by a roebuck	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roebuck=Location
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ail	present		thee			tree rules
6	weep	present	that	blue tears			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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