Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 155

I could not speak; but he seized her hand and said, "Our brother yonder loves you, and is he not dear to you?

Who acts: I, bond, brother · What happens: not speak, seize, say, love, not be · To what, where: hand, you · 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, bond, brother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 seized	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 seized	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seized	nsubj
8	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seized	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seized	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loves	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 loves	punct
15	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loves	nsubj
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	18 loves	advmod
18	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 loves	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dear	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dear	cc
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dear	cop
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dear	nsubj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dear	advmod
25	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speak	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 dear	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	could	I				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seize	past	bond	mother's hand			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	bond not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	love in a quote	present	Our brother	you		yonder property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	not is in a quote	present	bond		you	dear property	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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