Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 73
They showed the existence of deep feeling and a human heart, and the beauteous eyes overflowed with tears, weeping precious drops that lightened the heart.
Who acts: eyes, beauteous eyes, precious drops, deep feeling · What happens: show, overflow, weep, lighten, exist · To what, where: existence, precious drops, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (eyes, beauteous eyes, precious drops, deep feeling), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 existence | det |
| 4 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 feeling | case |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feeling | amod |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 existence | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heart | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 10 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heart | amod |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeling | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overflowed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 overflowed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eyes | det |
| 15 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 overflowed | nsubj |
| 17 | overflowed | overflow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 overflowed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
| 21 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 overflowed | advcl |
| 22 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 drops | amod |
| 23 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 weeping | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lightened | nsubj |
| 25 | lightened | lighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drops | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heart | det |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lightened | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | eyes = eye | the existence of deep feeling and a human heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent existence=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | overflow | past | the beauteous eyes | with tears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | the beauteous eyes not said here | precious drops | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lighten | past | precious drops | the heart | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 5 | exist | deep feeling and a human heart | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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