Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 92

“Your tale is very affecting.

Who acts: tale, Your · What happens: affect, tell · 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 (tale, Your), 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	_	6 affecting	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tale	nmod:poss
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affecting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 affecting	aux
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 affecting	advmod
6	affecting	affect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 affecting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect in a quote	present · progressive	Your tale						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell in a quote		Your						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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