Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 13

Is it true that you have taken my little playmate away from me?" said she to the river. "

Who acts: river, you, Gerda · What happens: be, take, say · To what, where: little playmate, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, you, Gerda), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 taken	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 taken	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 playmate	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 playmate	amod
10	playmate	playmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 away	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	river			true property	tree rules
2	take	present · perfect	you	my little playmate		away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playmate=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Gerda		the river		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to river=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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