Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 33

On this occasion the General told his only anecdote, about what he had said to the Prince, and how the Prince had said to him, "You are incomparable."

Who acts: General, George, Prince, only anecdote · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: only anecdote, occasion, Prince, George · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, George, Prince, only anecdote), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 General	det
5	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 anecdote	nmod:poss
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 anecdote	amod
9	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 told	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 what	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Prince	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 said	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Prince	det
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 incomparable	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 incomparable	punct
30	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 incomparable	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 incomparable	cop
32	incomparable	incomparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 incomparable	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 incomparable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the General	George's only anecdote	this occasion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent anecdote=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	George	the Prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Prince	George			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	George's only anecdote = anecdote			incomparable property	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: «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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