Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 11

When little Knud heard this dream, it seemed as if he could not bear the mocking and jeering again; how could he dare to go into the water now, after Joanna's dream!

Who acts: little Knud, it, boy, Joanna · What happens: hear, seem, not bear, jeer, dare, go · To what, where: dream, mocking, water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Knud, it, boy, Joanna), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Knud	amod
3	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dream	det
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 bear	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 bear	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bear	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 bear	advmod
15	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mocking	det
17	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bear	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 jeering	cc
19	jeering	jeer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bear	conj
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 jeering	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dare	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 dare	advmod
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 dare	aux
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dare	nsubj
25	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dare	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dream	punct
33	after	after	ADP	_	36 dream	case
34	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 dream	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Joanna	case
36	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	little Knud	this dream			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus
2	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	not bear a condition, not said to happen	could	boy	the mocking			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mocking=Patient
4	jeer	gerund	boy not said here			again	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dare	could	boy				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go	to-infinitive	boy not said here		the water	after Joanna's dream; now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
7	dream		Joanna				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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