Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 37
He did not himself know why he wept, yet a kind of pleasant feeling mingled with his tears. "
Who acts: huckster, kind · What happens: not know, weep, mingle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huckster, kind), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 wept | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wept | nsubj |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mingled | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 mingled | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mingled | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 feeling | case |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feeling | amod |
| 15 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 16 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mingled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | huckster | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | huckster | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mingle | past | a kind of pleasant feeling | with huckster's tears | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tear=Co-Patient |
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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