Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 74
Tears stood in her eyes as she read, and they shone with brightness, for in her heart it was light.
Who acts: Tears, Sarah, heart · What happens: stand, read, shine, be · To what, where: eyes
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 (Tears, Sarah, heart), 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 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 read | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 read | nsubj |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shone | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brightness | case |
| 14 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 light | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 light | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 light | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 light | cop |
| 22 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shone | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Tears | Sarah's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location | ||||
| 2 | read | past | Sarah | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shine | past | tears = tear | with brightness | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brightness=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | heart | for Sarah's heart; light property | tree rules |
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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