Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 28

"You honest, faithful soul," she exclaimed; and the words loosened Knud's tongue, and he told her how truly he had loved her, and that she must be his wife; and as he said this, he saw Joanna change color, and turn pale.

Who acts: You, room, words, Knud, word, Joanna · What happens: soul, exclaim, loosen, tell, love, be · To what, where: tongue, room, wife, this, color · 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 (You, room, words, Knud), 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 soul	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 soul	nsubj
3	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soul	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 honest	punct
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soul	amod
6	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exclaimed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soul	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 exclaimed	nsubj
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 loosened	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 loosened	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 loosened	nsubj
15	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exclaimed	parataxis
16	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tongue	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Knud	case
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loosened	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 loosened	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 truly	advmod
25	truly	truly	ADV	_	28 loved	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 loved	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 loved	aux
28	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 told	ccomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 loved	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wife	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wife	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 wife	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wife	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 wife	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 wife	cop
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exclaimed	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 said	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exclaimed	parataxis
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 said	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saw	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 saw	nsubj
46	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 said	conj
47	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 change	nsubj
48	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 saw	ccomp
49	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 change	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 turn	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 turn	cc
52	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 said	conj
53	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 turn	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	soul in a quote		You				tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	room				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	loosen	past	the words	Knud's tongue			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	Knud		room		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	love	past · perfect	Knud	room		truly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	is a	must	word	Knud's wife			tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Knud	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
8	see	past	Knud				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	change	present	Joanna	color			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient
10	turn	infinitive	Knud not said here			pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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