Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 79
Then the miserable form trembled; it was as if these words had touched an invisible bond between body and soul, for great tears stood in the eyes.
Who acts: great tears · What happens: tremble, touch, stand · To what, where: miserable form, form, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 trembled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 form | det |
| 3 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trembled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | aux:pass |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 touched | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 touched | mark |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | aux |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trembled | parataxis |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bond | det |
| 16 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bond | amod |
| 17 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | obj |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bond | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 soul | cc |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bond | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stood | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 stood | mark |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tears | amod |
| 25 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stood | nsubj |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eyes | det |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stood | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle · passive | the miserable form | then | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | form | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer bond=Result | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | great tears | the eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location |
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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