Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 249

She had heard from her own mother and grandmother about Poultry Meg's mother and grandmother.

Who acts: family · What happens: hear

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 mother	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grandmother	cc
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 mother	case
11	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Meg	compound
12	Meg	Meg	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mother	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Meg	case
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grandmother	cc
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	family					from family's own mother and grandmother; about Poultry Meg's mother and grandmother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent from mother=Source about mother=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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