Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 91

“My intended has told me so much good of you, my dear young lady,” said the tame Raven.

Who acts: tame Raven · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: intended, tame Raven · 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 (tame 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	_	19 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 intended	nmod:poss
3	intended	intended	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 good	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lady	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lady	nmod:poss
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Raven	det
21	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Raven	amod
22	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		My intended	the tame Raven = raven				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the tame Raven						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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