Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 57

Great tears came into her shining dark eyes; and with the same gentle piety with which she had once listened to the gospel while sitting on the form at school, she felt its grandeur now, and the tears rolled down her cheeks.

Who acts: Great tears, girl, tears · What happens: come, shine, listen, sit, feel, roll down · To what, where: shining dark eyes, form, grandeur, cheeks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great tears, girl, 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tears	amod
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
6	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 eyes	amod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 piety	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 piety	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 piety	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 piety	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 piety	amod
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 piety	amod
15	piety	piety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 listened	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 listened	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 listened	aux
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 listened	advmod
21	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 piety	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 gospel	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gospel	det
24	gospel	gospel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 listened	obl
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 sitting	mark
26	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 listened	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 form	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 form	det
29	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 school	case
31	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 felt	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 felt	nsubj
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 grandeur	nmod:poss
36	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 felt	obj
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 felt	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rolled	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rolled	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tears	det
41	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 rolled	nsubj
42	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 rolled	compound:prt
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 cheeks	nmod:poss
45	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 rolled	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Great tears		girl's shining dark eyes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location
2	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	listen	past · perfect	girl				with the same gentle piety; to the gospel; once property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to gospel=Theme
4	sit	gerund	girl not said here		the form		at school	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on form=Location
5	feel	past	girl	form's grandeur		now		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandeur=Theme
6	roll down	past	the tears	girl'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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