Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 32

At this moment her stepmother came into the room, and Joanna said quickly, "Knud is so unhappy, because I am going away;" and it appeared as if they had only been talking of her journey. "

Who acts: stepmother, Joanna, Knud, it, heart, word · What happens: come, say, be, go away, appear, talk · To what, where: room · 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 (stepmother, Joanna, Knud, it), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stepmother	nmod:poss
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unhappy	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 unhappy	punct
17	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 unhappy	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 unhappy	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 unhappy	advmod
20	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 going	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 going	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 going	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 appeared	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 appeared	nsubj
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 talking	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 talking	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 talking	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 talking	aux
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 talking	advmod
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 talking	aux
38	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 appeared	advcl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 journey	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 journey	nmod:poss
41	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 talking	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	word's stepmother	the room	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Joanna			quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	Knud			unhappy property	tree rules
4	go away in a quote	present · progressive	Joanna			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past	it				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	past · perfect · progressive	heart			of word's journey	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	journey		word				nom journey «act 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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