--- title: Poor Knud! he seized his master's hand, and cried out loud, "Joanna,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Poor Knud! he seized his master's hand, and cried out loud, "Joanna," but no one heard him, excepting his master, for the music sounded above everything. Who acts: Poor Knud, one, music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Poor Knud, one, music), 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:pg27200:203:111 # text = Poor Knud! he seized his master's hand, and cried out loud, "Joanna," but no one heard him, excepting his master, for the music sounded above everything. 1 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 loud loud ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Joanna Joanna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 excepting except VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 above above ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | past | Poor Knud | Knud's master's hand | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Poor Knud *not said here* | | | | | loud, out *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **hear** | past | no one | Joanna | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **except** | gerund | no one *not said here* | Joanna's master | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | past | the music | | | everything | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above everything=Location | 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 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/110/) - next →: [Under the Willow-tree, part 3, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/1/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)