Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 8

Grandmother says that she has heard her own grandmother tell of him; he is said to lead a solitary life, and to have nobody with whom he can converse save the great old church Bell.

Who acts: Grandmother, spirit · What happens: say, hear, lead, have, converse, save · To what, where: own grandmother tell, spirit, solitary life, nobody, great old church Bell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, spirit), 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	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tell	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tell	amod
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	compound
10	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lead	mark
18	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 life	det
20	solitary	solitary	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 life	compound
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lead	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lead	conj
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 have	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 nobody	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 converse	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 converse	aux
31	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 whom	acl:relcl
32	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 converse	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Bell	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Bell	amod
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Bell	amod
36	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Bell	compound
37	Bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 save	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandmother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	present · perfect	Grandmother	Grandmother's own grandmother tell of spirit	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present · passive		spirit	tree rules
4	lead	to-infinitive		a solitary life	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	have	to-infinitive		nobody	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
6	converse speech: other	can	spirit		tree rules
7	save	infinitive	spirit not said here	the great old church Bell	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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