Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 2
"On Sunday I shall see her," said Knud to himself, "and I will tell her that I love her with my whole heart and soul, and that she must be my little wife.
Who acts: Knud, she · What happens: see, say, tell, love, be · To what, where: her, Knud, little wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, she), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Sunday | case |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tell | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 love | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 heart | amod |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 love | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 soul | cc |
| 30 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heart | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wife | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wife | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 wife | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 wife | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wife | cop |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nmod:poss |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wife | amod |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | shall | Knud | her = she | sunday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Knud | Knud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Knud | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | Knud | her = she | with my whole heart and soul | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | must | she | my little wife | tree rules |
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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