--- title: At this moment her stepmother came into the room, and Joanna said qu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: At this moment her stepmother came into the room, and Joanna said quickly, "Knud is so unhappy, because I am going away;" and it appeared as if they had only been talking of her journey. " Who acts: stepmother, Joanna, Knud, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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" **Who acts:** stepmother, Joanna, Knud, it, heart, word · **What happens:** come, say, be, go away, appear, talk · **To what, where:** room · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (stepmother, Joanna, Knud, it), 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:pg27200:203:32 # text = At this moment her stepmother came into the room, and Joanna said quickly, "Knud is so unhappy, because I am going away;" and it appeared as if they had only been talking of her journey. " 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Joanna Joanna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 aux _ _ 38 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | word's stepmother | | | the room | moment | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joanna | | | | | quickly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Knud | | | | | unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go away** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Joanna | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **appear** | past | it | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **talk** | past · perfect · progressive | heart | | | | | of word's journey | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **journey** | | word | | | | | | nom journey «act 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/33/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)