Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 77
He never spoke of Joanna to any one; his sorrow was hidden in his heart.
Who acts: Kjoge · What happens: not speak, hide, sorrow · To what, where: one, sorrow, heart · 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 (Kjoge), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Joanna | case |
| 5 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hidden | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | aux:pass |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spoke | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past | Kjoge | any one | of Joanna | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | hide | past · passive | Kjoge's sorrow | Kjoge's heart | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in heart=Location | ||||
| 3 | sorrow | Kjoge | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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