Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 111

Then little Gerda cried, and told her her whole history, and all that the Ravens had done for her.

Who acts: little Gerda · What happens: cry, tell, do · To what, where: whole history, Gerda, Ravens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Gerda), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cried	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Gerda	amod
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 history	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 history	amod
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 done	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 done	det:predet
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 done	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Ravens	det
17	Ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 done	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cried	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	little Gerda			then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	little Gerda not said here	Gerda's whole history	Gerda			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient history=Topic
3	do	past · perfect · passive		the Ravens			for Gerda	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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