Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 59
Each pleasing recollection, each kind word, every tear from the heart which her foster-mother had wept for her, rose in her mind, and at that moment she felt as if she loved this mother the best.
Who acts: foster mother, pleasing recollection, mother · What happens: please, weep, rise, feel, love, mind · To what, where: tear, mind, mother
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 (foster mother, pleasing recollection, mother), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 recollection | det |
| 2 | pleasing | please | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 recollection | amod |
| 3 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 word | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recollection | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tear | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 tear | det |
| 10 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | appos |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tear | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 wept | obj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 foster | punct |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wept | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wept | aux |
| 20 | wept | weep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 tear | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wept | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollection | punct |
| 24 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mind | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rose | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 felt | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 felt | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 moment | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 moment | det |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 felt | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 felt | nsubj |
| 34 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rose | conj |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 loved | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 loved | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 loved | nsubj |
| 38 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 felt | ccomp |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 mother | det |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 loved | obj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 best | det |
| 42 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 loved | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | weep | past · perfect | recollection's foster mother | every tear from the heart | for recollection | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | rise | past | each pleasing recollection | mother's mind | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mind=Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | mother | moment | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | love a condition, not said to happen | past | mother | this mother | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mind | mother | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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