Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 92

Jurgen gave such a vague answer that it was not easy to make out what he meant--the old man brought Else to him, and she said:

Who acts: Jurgen, old man, Martin · What happens: give, not be, make out, mean, bring, say · To what, where: vague answer, Jurgen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, old man, Martin), 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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 answer	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 answer	det
5	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 easy	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 easy	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 easy	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 easy	advmod
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 easy	csubj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 make	compound:prt
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 meant	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 meant	nsubj
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 make	advcl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	nsubj
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
23	Else	else	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Jurgen	such vague answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	not is	past	Jurgen not said here			easy property	tree rules
3	make out	to-infinitive					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	mean	past	Jurgen				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	bring	past	the old man		Jurgen	else property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
6	say speech: assert	past	Martin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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