The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 121
Then Gerda wept hot tears which fell on his neck and thawed his heart and swept away the bit of the looking-glass.
Who acts: Gerda, hot tears · What happens: weep, fall, thaw, sweep away, look · To what, where: hot tears, neck, heart, bit
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, hot 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 | 3 wept | advmod |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tears | amod |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wept | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tears | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thawed | cc |
| 12 | thawed | thaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thawed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swept | cc |
| 16 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 swept | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swept | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 glass | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 glass | det |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 glass | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bit | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Gerda | hot tears | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | hot tears | Kay's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | ||||
| 3 | thaw | past | hot tears not said here | Kay's heart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result | ||||
| 4 | sweep away | past | hot tears not said here | the bit of the looking glass | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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