Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 22

My child!" she exclaimed, "the flower of my heart--my lotus flower of the deep water!" and she embraced her child again and wept, and the tears were as a baptism of new life and love for Helga. "

Who acts: child, tears · What happens: exclaim, embrace, weep, be · To what, where: flower, child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 child	nmod:poss
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flower	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 flower	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flower	det
10	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heart	nmod:poss
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flower	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 flower	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 flower	nmod:poss
16	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flower	compound
17	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flower	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flower	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 flower	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 flower	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 embraced	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 embraced	nsubj
26	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 exclaimed	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 child	nmod:poss
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 embraced	obj
29	again	again	ADV	_	26 embraced	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wept	cc
31	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 embraced	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 baptism	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 baptism	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tears	det
35	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 baptism	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 baptism	cop
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 baptism	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 baptism	det
39	baptism	baptism	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 life	case
41	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 life	amod
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 baptism	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 love	cc
44	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 baptism	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 Helga	case
46	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 baptism	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	My child	the flower of my heart			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent flower=Topic
2	embrace in a quote	past	child	heart's child	again		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent
3	weep in a quote	past	child not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	the tears			as a baptism and love; of new life; for Helga	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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