Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 83
Then she talked about them, and the story of their silent love, and how they lay on the counter together and split in two; and then she laughed heartily; but the blood rushed into Knud's cheeks, and his heart beat quickly.
Who acts: girl, questions, blood · What happens: talk, lay, split, laugh, rush, beat · To what, where: counter, two, blood, cheeks
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 (girl, questions, blood), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 talked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 story | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 story | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 love | amod |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 lay | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 counter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 counter | det |
| 21 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 lay | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 split | cc |
| 24 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lay | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 two | case |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 split | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 laughed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 laughed | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 laughed | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 laughed | nsubj |
| 31 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 32 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 31 laughed | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 beat | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 beat | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 blood | det |
| 36 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 beat | nsubj |
| 37 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 blood | acl |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 cheeks | case |
| 39 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Knud | case |
| 41 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 rushed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 beat | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 beat | cc |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 beat | nsubj |
| 46 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | parataxis |
| 47 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 46 beat | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | girl | then | about questions = question | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic | |||
| 2 | lay | present | questions = question | the counter | together property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on counter=Destination | |||
| 3 | split | present | questions = question not said here | two | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | girl | then | heartily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | rush | participle | the blood not said here | into Knud's cheeks result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cheek=Result | ||||
| 6 | beat | present | the blood | quickly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | love | questions = question | 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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