Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 29

"We thank you," they said to Knud, "for you have loosened our tongues; we have learnt from you that thoughts should be spoken freely, or nothing will come of them; and now something has come of our thoughts, for we are engaged to be married."

Who acts: We, tree, Knud, nothing, something, our · What happens: thank, say, loosen, learn, speak, come · To what, where: Knud, tongues, thoughts, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, tree, Knud, nothing), 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	_	3 thank	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Knud	case
10	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 loosened	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 loosened	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 loosened	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 loosened	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 loosened	aux
16	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 Knud	acl:relcl
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongues	nmod:poss
18	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 loosened	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 learnt	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 learnt	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 learnt	aux
22	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 learnt	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 spoken	mark
26	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spoken	nsubj:pass
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 spoken	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 spoken	aux:pass
29	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 learnt	advcl
30	freely	freely	ADV	_	29 spoken	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 come	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 learnt	parataxis
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 come	cc
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 come	advmod
41	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 come	nsubj
42	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
43	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 thoughts	case
45	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 thoughts	nmod:poss
46	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 come	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 engaged	punct
48	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 engaged	mark
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 engaged	nsubj
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 engaged	aux:pass
51	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 come	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	54 married	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 married	aux:pass
54	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 engaged	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	We		Knud			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	tree		Knud			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to knud=Recipient clause=Topic
3	loosen in a quote	present · perfect	Knud	our tongues				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
4	learn in a quote	present · perfect	we				from Knud	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from you=Source
5	speak speech: other in a quote	should · passive		thoughts			freely property	tree rules
6	come in a quote	future	nothing				of tree	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of they=Initial_Location
7	come in a quote	present · perfect	something			now	of our thoughts	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of thought=Initial_Location
8	engage in a quote	present · passive		we				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
9	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
10	think in a quote		our					nom thought «cognition 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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