Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 94

"It may be all very pretty what you are telling me," said little Gerda, "but you speak so mournfully, and you do not mention little Kay at all."

Who acts: picture, little Gerda, you · What happens: tell, say, speak, not mention · To what, where: little Gerda, little Kay, all · 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 (picture, little Gerda, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 telling	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 telling	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 telling	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 pretty	advmod
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 telling	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 telling	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 telling	aux
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 telling	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Gerda	amod
17	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 speak	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 speak	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 speak	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 speak	nsubj
22	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 mournfully	advmod
24	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	22 speak	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mention	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mention	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 mention	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mention	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 mention	advmod
30	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 speak	conj
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Kay	amod
32	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mention	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 mention	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	may · progressive	picture		little Gerda = gerda			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	little Gerda					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	you				mournfully property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not mention speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you	little Kay		all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kay=Topic

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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