Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 62

In the morning Gerda told her all that the Wood-pigeons had said; and the little maiden looked very serious, but she nodded her head, and said, “That's no matter--that's no matter.

Who acts: Gerda, Wood pigeons, little maiden, maiden, That · What happens: tell, say, look, nod, be · To what, where: maiden, head, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Wood pigeons, little maiden, maiden), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 said	det:predet
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 said	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pigeons	det
10	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pigeons	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Wood	punct
12	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maiden	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 maiden	amod
19	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 serious	advmod
22	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looked	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nodded	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 nodded	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nodded	nsubj
26	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nodded	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 matter	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 matter	punct
34	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 matter	nsubj
35	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 matter	cop
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 matter	det
37	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	ccomp
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 matter	punct
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 matter	nsubj
40	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 matter	cop
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 matter	det
42	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 matter	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda		maiden	morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Wood pigeons					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the little maiden				serious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	nod	past	maiden	maiden's head				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Gerda not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	That	no matter and no matter				tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present	that	no matter				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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