Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 19

And when my mother sang thus, her eyes would become moist; and on the long eyelashes were tears, but she concealed them and watched the black bread baking in the ashes.

Who acts: mother, eyes · What happens: sing, become, be, conceal, watch · To what, where: tears, long eyelashes, eyes, black bread baking, ashes

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 (mother, eyes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sang	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 sang	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 become	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 become	aux
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sang	conj
12	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 become	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 tears	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tears	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 eyelashes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eyelashes	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyelashes	amod
18	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tears	obl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tears	cop
20	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 concealed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 concealed	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 concealed	nsubj
24	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sang	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 concealed	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 watched	cc
27	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 concealed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 baking	det
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 baking	amod
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 baking	compound
31	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watched	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 ashes	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ashes	det
34	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 watched	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	my mother			thus property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	become	would	mother's eyes			moist property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past		tears	the long eyelashes		tree rules
4	conceal	past	mother	eyes = eye			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	watch	past	mother not said here	the black bread baking	the ashes		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baking=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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