Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 36

Then Gerda told her everything, while the old woman shook her head, and said, "Hem-hem;" and when she had finished, Gerda asked if she had not seen little Kay, and the old woman told her he had not passed by that way, but he very likely would come.

Who acts: Gerda, old woman, way, Kay · What happens: tell, shake, say, finish, ask, not see · To what, where: everything, head, little Kay, Gerda, Kay · 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 (Gerda, old woman, way, Kay), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 everything	nmod:poss
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shook	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 shook	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	nsubj
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hem	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 hem	punct
19	Hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hem	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Hem	punct
21	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 finished	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 finished	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finished	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finished	aux
28	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct
30	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 asked	nsubj
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 seen	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 seen	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 seen	advmod
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 asked	ccomp
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Kay	amod
38	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 told	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 told	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 woman	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 woman	amod
43	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 told	nsubj
44	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 told	iobj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 passed	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 passed	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 passed	advmod
49	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 told	ccomp
50	by	by	ADP	_	52 way	case
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 way	det
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 passed	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 come	punct
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 come	cc
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 come	nsubj
56	very	very	ADV	_	57 likely	advmod
57	likely	likely	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 come	aux
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 passed	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda	everything		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
2	shake	past	the old woman	Gerda's head				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Gerda not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	finish	past · perfect	Gerda					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	past	Gerda					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Gerda	little Kay				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kay=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman		Gerda			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	not pass	past · perfect · passive	that way	Kay				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
9	come	would	Kay				likely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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