Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 33

You may believe every word I say,” said the Raven; “for I have a tame sweetheart that hops about in the palace quite free, and it was she who told me all this.

Who acts: You, I, word, tame sweetheart, Princess · What happens: believe, say, have, hop about, be, tell · To what, where: word, Raven, tame sweetheart, palace, Princess, this · 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 (You, I, word, tame sweetheart), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	aux
3	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Raven	det
12	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 told	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sweetheart	det
19	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sweetheart	amod
20	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hops	nsubj
22	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sweetheart	acl:relcl
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 hops	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 palace	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 palace	det
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hops	obl
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 free	advmod
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 palace	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 she	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 she	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 she	cop
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	nsubj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 told	nsubj
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 this	det:predet
38	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 told	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	may	You					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	I	every word not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	every word	the Raven				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic
4	have	present	I	a tame sweetheart				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Patient
5	hop about	present	a tame sweetheart			the palace	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Trajectory
6	is a	past	word	Princess				tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past	Princess	this	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient this=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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