Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 43

“I have often longed for such a dear little girl,” said the old woman.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: long, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (old woman), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 longed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 longed	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 longed	aux
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 longed	advmod
5	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 girl	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 girl	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 longed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 longed	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 longed	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	long in a quote	present · perfect	the old woman = woman					for such dear little girl; often property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for girl=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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