Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 18

“I am a Kjoger hen,” [*] said she, and then she related how many inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had taken place, and which, after all, was hardly worth talking about.

Who acts: hen, battle · What happens: be, say, relate, take, talk about · To what, where: Kjoger hen, many inhabitants, battle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, battle), 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 hen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hen	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hen	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
5	Kjoger	Kjoger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hen	compound
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hen	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 hen	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	*	*	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hen	parataxis
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 related	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 related	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 related	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 related	nsubj
18	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 inhabitants	amod
21	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 related	obj
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 inhabitants	acl:relcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 were	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 battle	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 battle	cc
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 battle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 battle	det
29	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 related	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 taken	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taken	aux
32	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 battle	acl:relcl
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taken	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 worth	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 worth	cc
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 worth	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 which	punct
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 which	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 which	punct
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 worth	cop
42	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	43 worth	advmod
43	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 battle	parataxis
44	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 worth	advcl
45	about	about	ADP	_	44 talking	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	hen	a Kjoger hen			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	hen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	relate	past	hen	many inhabitants	then	about the battle	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme
4	take	past · perfect · passive		the battle			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination
5	is	past	the battle			hardly, worth property	tree rules
6	talk about	gerund	the battle not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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