Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 29
She let his hand fall, and said, earnestly and mournfully, "Knud, do not make yourself and me unhappy.
Who acts: word, Knud · What happens: let, say, not make · To what, where: hand fall, yourself · 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 (word, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fall | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | compound |
| 5 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 earnestly | punct |
| 10 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mournfully | cc |
| 12 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 10 earnestly | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 make | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 unhappy | cc |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 unhappy | nsubj |
| 23 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | word | Knud's hand fall | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | word not said here | earnestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Knud | yourself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product |
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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