Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 102

Then little Gerda wept and told her story, and all that the crows had done to help her.

Who acts: little Gerda · What happens: weep, tell, do, help · To what, where: story, crows, crow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wept	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Gerda	amod
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod:poss
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 done	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 done	det:predet
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crows	det
14	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 done	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wept	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 help	mark
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	weep	past	little Gerda			then	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	little Gerda not said here	Gerda's story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	do	past · perfect · passive		the crows			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	help	to-infinitive			crow		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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