Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 41

I tore it open and read it; I cried and laughed at the same time, and was so happy!

Who acts: I · What happens: tore, read, cry, laugh, be · To what, where: letter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	obj
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tore	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 read	cc
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 open	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laughed	cc
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laughed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happy	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 happy	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 happy	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 happy	advmod
21	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tore	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	I	letter		open property	tree rules
2	read	infinitive	I not said here	letter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past	I				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	past	I not said here		time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				happy 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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