Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 31

I was the first to hear this story, for the storm sung it to me among the sand-hills.

Who acts: I, storm · What happens: be, hear, sing · To what, where: story, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, storm), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 first	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 first	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 first	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 first	advcl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sung	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 sung	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sung	nsubj
13	sung	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 first	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sung	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sung	obl
17	among	among	ADP	_	21 hills	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hills	det
19	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hills	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sand	punct
21	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sung	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			first property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here	this story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	past	the storm	story	me	among the sand hills	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient

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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