Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 63

It is said he spoke as well as I speak when I talk Raven language; this I learned from my tame sweetheart.

Who acts: Raven, I, this · What happens: say, speak, talk, learn · To what, where: prouder, Raven language, tame sweetheart · 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, I, this), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 speak	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 speak	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 speak	nsubj
10	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 talk	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 talk	nsubj
13	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	advcl
14	Raven	raven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 language	amod
15	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talk	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 learned	punct
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 learned	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 learned	nsubj
19	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 sweetheart	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sweetheart	nmod:poss
22	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sweetheart	amod
23	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learned	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		prouder		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	Raven			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	present	I			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	present	I	Raven language		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent language=Patient
5	learn	past	this		my tame sweetheart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sweetheart=Source

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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