Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 16

The tears both of joy and sorrow sprang into the young man's eyes; for he thought how sad it was to see his dear father so infirm, and how sweet it would be to support him with his own youthful strength, and to cheer him up with the alacrity of his loving spirit.

Who acts: tears, man, aspect · What happens: spring, think, see, infirm, be, cheer up · To what, where: eyes, dear father, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, man, aspect), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sprang	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 joy	det
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 joy	case
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprang	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sorrow	cc
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joy	conj
8	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eyes	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sprang	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sprang	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 sad	advmod
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
26	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 father	amod
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 infirm	advmod
29	infirm	infirm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 see	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sweet	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sweet	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 sweet	advmod
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 support	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 support	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 support	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 support	mark
38	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sweet	ccomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 support	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	44 strength	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 strength	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 strength	amod
43	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 strength	amod
44	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 support	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cheer	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cheer	cc
47	to	to	PART	_	48 cheer	mark
48	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cheer	obj
50	up	up	ADP	_	48 cheer	compound:prt
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 alacrity	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 alacrity	det
53	alacrity	alacrity	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cheer	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 spirit	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 spirit	nmod:poss
56	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 spirit	amod
57	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 alacrity	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the tears		the young man's eyes		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	man			sad property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	past	aspect	man's dear father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
4	infirm	infinitive	aspect not said here				tree rules
5	is	would	aspect			with man's own youthful strength; support property	tree rules
6	cheer up	to-infinitive		man		with the alacrity of man's loving spirit	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with alacrity=Instrument

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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