Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 32

Ah,' said the gingerbread man to himself, 'if she had only known of my love, she would have kept together a little longer.'

Who acts: gingerbread man, heart, my · What happens: say, know, keep together, love · To what, where: man · 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 (gingerbread man, heart, my), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 known	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 known	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 known	advmod
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 love	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 love	nmod:poss
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 known	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kept	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kept	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 kept	aux
24	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 known	parataxis
25	together	together	ADV	_	24 kept	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 longer	obl:unmarked
28	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 kept	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the gingerbread man	man		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	heart		of my love	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of love=Stimulus
3	keep together	would · perfect	heart		long, together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	love		my			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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