Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 39
He has a home, a wife and children, who weep at his sorrow and rejoice at his joy.
Who acts: watchman, children · What happens: have, weep, rejoice, sorrow, joy · To what, where: home, sorrow, joy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, children), 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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 home | det |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 home | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 children | cc |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wife | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weep | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 weep | nsubj |
| 12 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 children | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sorrow | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weep | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rejoice | cc |
| 17 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 weep | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 joy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rejoice | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | watchman | a home and a wife and children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 2 | weep | present | children | watchman's sorrow | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rejoice | present | children not said here | watchman's joy | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | watchman | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | joy | watchman | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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