Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 16

The word “alone” Gerda understood quite well, and felt how much was expressed by it; so she told the Raven her whole history, and asked if he had not seen Kay.

Who acts: word, Gerda, Raven · What happens: understand, feel, express, tell, ask, not see · To what, where: much, whole history, Raven, Kay · 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 (word, Gerda, Raven), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 understood	nsubj
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 word	advmod
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 understood	nsubj
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 understood	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 felt	cc
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 expressed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 expressed	aux:pass
16	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 felt	ccomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 expressed	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Raven	det
24	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 told	iobj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 history	nmod:poss
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 history	amod
27	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 seen	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seen	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 seen	advmod
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 asked	ccomp
36	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the word			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	feel	past	the word not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	express	past · passive		much		by word	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda	Gerda's whole history	the Raven		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient history=Topic
5	ask speech: ask	past	Gerda not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Raven	Kay			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kay=Stimulus

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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