Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 23

“Yes--listen,” said the Raven; “but it will be difficult for me to speak your language.

Who acts: Raven · What happens: listen, say, be, speak · To what, where: language · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 listen	discourse
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Raven	det
9	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 difficult	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 difficult	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 difficult	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 difficult	expl
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 difficult	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 difficult	cop
16	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 speak	mark
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 speak	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 difficult	csubj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 language	nmod:poss
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speak	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Raven			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	future			difficult property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	the Raven = raven	your language		tree rules

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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