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title: And Molly and Anthony both wept, but these tears all flowed together… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And Molly and Anthony both wept, but these tears all flowed together into one tear which had the rosy shimmer of joy. Who acts: Molly, tears, one tear, joy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 100

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And Molly and Anthony both wept, but these tears all flowed together into one tear which had the rosy shimmer of joy.

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**Who acts:** Molly, tears, one tear, joy · **What happens:** weep, flow, have, shimmer · **To what, where:** one tear, rosy shimmer

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly, tears, one tear, joy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:128:100
# text = And Molly and Anthony both wept, but these tears all flowed together into one tear which had the rosy shimmer of joy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shimmer	shimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | Molly and Anthony |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flow** | past | this tears |  |  | one tear |  | all, together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | one tear | the rosy shimmer of joy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shimmer=Patient |
| 4 | **shimmer** |  | joy |  |  |  |  |  | nom shimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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