--- title: Then she talked about them, and the story of their silent love, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then she talked about them, and the story of their silent love, and how they lay on the counter together and split in two; and then she laughed heartily; but the blood rushed into Knud's cheeks, and his heart beat quickly. Who acts: girl, questions, blood. 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C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, questions, blood), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:202:83 # text = Then she talked about them, and the story of their silent love, and how they lay on the counter together and split in two; and then she laughed heartily; but the blood rushed into Knud's cheeks, and his heart beat quickly. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 counter counter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 split split VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 heartily heartily ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 37 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 47 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | girl | | | | then | about questions *= question* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic | | 2 | **lay** | present | questions *= question* | | | the counter | | together *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on counter=Destination | | 3 | **split** | present | questions *= question* *not said here* | | | two | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **laugh** | past | girl | | | | then | heartily *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rush** | participle | | the blood *not said here* | | | | into Knud's cheeks *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cheek=Result | | 6 | **beat** | present | the blood | | | | | quickly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **love** | | questions *= question* | | | | | | nom love «feeling 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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/84/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/)