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title: And so it was with Anthony; often the scalding tears, like pearly dr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it was with Anthony; often the scalding tears, like pearly drops, would fall from his eyes to the coverlet and roll on the floor with a sound as if one of his heartstrings had broken. Who acts: agony, scalding tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 53

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And so it was with Anthony; often the scalding tears, like pearly drops, would fall from his eyes to the coverlet and roll on the floor with a sound as if one of his heartstrings had broken.

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**Who acts:** agony, scalding tears · **What happens:** be, fall, break · **To what, where:** eyes

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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 (agony, scalding tears), 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:pg27200:128:53
# text = And so it was with Anthony; often the scalding tears, like pearly drops, would fall from his eyes to the coverlet and roll on the floor with a sound as if one of his heartstrings had broken.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	scalding	scalding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pearly	pearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	heartstrings	heartstring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | agony |  |  |  |  | with Anthony | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | would | the scalding tears and pearly drops |  |  | Anthony's eyes |  | to the coverlet and roll; on the floor with a sound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location to coverlet=Destination |
| 3 | **break** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | as one; of Anthony's heartstrings | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of heartstring=Co-Patient |

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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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