Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 79

He understood now why the gingerbread man had a bitter almond in his left side; his was the feeling of bitterness, and Joanna, so mild and friendly, was represented by the honeycake maiden.

Who acts: Kjoge, gingerbread man, honeycake maiden · What happens: understand, have, be, represent · To what, where: bitter almond, left side, feeling, Joanna

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, gingerbread man, honeycake maiden), 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	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 understood	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 had	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 almond	det
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 almond	amod
11	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 side	nmod:poss
14	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 feeling	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feeling	nmod:poss
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 feeling	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feeling	det
20	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 bitterness	case
22	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feeling	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 represented	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 represented	cc
25	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 represented	nsubj:pass
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mild	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 mild	advmod
28	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Joanna	appos
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 friendly	cc
30	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mild	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Joanna	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 represented	aux:pass
33	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 understood	parataxis
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 maiden	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 maiden	det
36	honeycake	honeycake	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 maiden	compound
37	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 represented	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Kjoge			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	the gingerbread man	a bitter almond	Kjoge's left side			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent almond=Patient
3	is a	past	the gingerbread man not said here	Kjoge's feeling			of bitterness	tree rules
4	represent	past · passive	the honeycake maiden	Joanna				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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