Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 164

"Oh, my poor mother!" he cried, while the tears rolled down his cheeks. "

Who acts: poor mother, tears · What happens: cry, roll down · To what, where: cheeks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor mother, 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	_	6 mother	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rolled	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 rolled	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tears	det
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rolled	nsubj
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 rolled	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cheeks	nmod:poss
18	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rolled	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my poor mother						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roll down	past	the tears	boy's cheeks					vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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