Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 97

And the Reindeer told her the whole of Gerda's history, but first of all his own; for that seemed to him of much greater importance.

Who acts: Reindeer · What happens: tell, seem · To what, where: woman, reindeer · 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 (Reindeer), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Reindeer	det
3	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whole	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 history	case
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 history	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Gerda	case
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whole	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 own	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 own	cc
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 own	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 own	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 own	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 seemed	obl
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seemed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 importance	case
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 greater	advmod
27	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 importance	amod
28	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Reindeer		woman			of reindeer's own; whole property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	seem	past			reindeer			for that; of greater importance	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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