Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 74

Oh! how little Gerda's heart beat with anxiety and longing; it was just as if she were going to do something wrong, and yet she only wanted to know where little Kay was. "

Who acts: longing, Gerda, little Kay · What happens: go, do, want, know, be · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (longing, Gerda, little Kay), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 beat	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Gerda	amod
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beat	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Gerda	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	compound
8	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 anxiety	case
10	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 longing	cc
12	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anxiety	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 going	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 beat	appos
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 do	obj
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 something	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wanted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wanted	cc
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 wanted	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 wanted	advmod
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 know	mark
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wanted	xcomp
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 was	advmod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Kay	amod
36	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 know	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	longing			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	longing not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	want	past	Gerda		yet	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	little Kay			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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