Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 55
But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!"
Who acts: we · What happens: see, shed, add · To what, where: naughty, tears, day
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 shed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shed | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 naughty | det |
| 6 | naughty | naughty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 child | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 naughty | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 shed | nsubj |
| 13 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sorrow | case |
| 16 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tears | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 added | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 added | cc |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 tear | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 tear | det |
| 21 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 added | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 added | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 added | aux:pass |
| 25 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 time | nmod:poss |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 added | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 trial | case |
| 30 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 time | nmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 shed | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | we | a naughty or a wicked child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naughty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shed | past | we | tears of sorrow | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present · passive | a day | time | for every tear | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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