Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 133

Presently I seized his hand: "Aphtanides," I exclaimed, "there is one thing still that you must know,--one thing that till now has been a secret between myself and Heaven.

Who acts: I, one thing, you · What happens: seize, exclaim, be, know · To what, where: hand, one thing, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one thing, you), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 seized	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Aphtanides	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Aphtanides	punct
8	Aphtanides	Aphtanides	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 is	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 is	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaimed	parataxis
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thing	nummod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	23 know	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thing	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 thing	nummod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 know	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 secret	nsubj
29	till	till	ADP	_	30 now	case
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 secret	obl
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 secret	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 secret	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 secret	det
34	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thing	acl:relcl
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 myself	case
36	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 secret	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Heaven	cc
38	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 secret	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	I	country's hand			Aphtanides obl; presently property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past	I					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	one thing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know in a quote	must	you	one thing not said here		still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	present · perfect	one thing	a secret and Heaven			between myself	tree rules

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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