Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 19

The family has sharp ears, and they all heard every word that their neighbour had said.

Who acts: family, ears · What happens: have, hear, say · To what, where: sharp ears, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, ears), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ears	amod
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 heard	advmod
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 said	nsubj:pass
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neighbour	nmod:poss
15	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	aux
17	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 word	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	the family	sharp ears	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	hear	past	ears = ear	every word	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		every word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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