Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 25

“No, I have not learnt it,” said Gerda; “but my grandmother understands it, and she can speak gibberish too.

Who acts: Gerda, grandmother · What happens: not learn, say, understand, speak · To what, where: language, gibberish · 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 (Gerda, grandmother), 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	_	7 learnt	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 learnt	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 learnt	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 learnt	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 learnt	advmod
7	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learnt	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 learnt	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 learnt	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 understands	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 understands	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 understands	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandmother	nmod:poss
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 understands	nsubj
18	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understands	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 speak	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 speak	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speak	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	aux
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 understands	parataxis
25	gibberish	gibberish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speak	obj
26	too	too	ADV	_	24 speak	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not learn in a quote	present · perfect	Gerda	language	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Gerda		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	understand in a quote	present	my grandmother	language	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other in a quote	can	Gerda	gibberish	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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