Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 153
"Nothing, nothing; only leave me to myself," he answered but the tears were running down his cheeks.
Who acts: heaven, tears · What happens: leave, answer, run down · To what, where: heaven, cheeks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven, tears), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Nothing | parataxis |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 myself | case |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 leave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | parataxis |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 running | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tears | det |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 running | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 running | aux |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 running | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 running | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | infinitive | heaven | heaven | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | heaven | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run down | past · progressive | the tears | heaven's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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