Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 27

He is a man, he ought to speak the first word,' thought the gingerbread maiden; but she felt quite happy--she was sure that her love was returned.

Who acts: man, first word, heart · What happens: be, speak, think, feel, return, love · To what, where: man, first word, gingerbread maiden, love · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, first word, heart), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 man	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speak	nsubj
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 man	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speak	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 word	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maiden	det
17	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maiden	compound
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	parataxis
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 happy	advmod
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	xcomp
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 sure	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sure	cop
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 returned	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod:poss
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returned	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 returned	aux:pass
33	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sure	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	man	a man		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	ought	man	the first word		tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	the first word not said here	the gingerbread maiden		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot maiden=Theme
4	feel	past	heart		happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	heart		sure property	tree rules
6	return	past · passive		heart's love		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	love		heart			nom love «feeling 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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