Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 18

"It does not matter," answered the crow; "I will explain as well as I can, although it will be very badly done;" and he told her what he had heard. "

Who acts: It, crow, I, Kay · What happens: not matter, answer, explain, do, tell, hear · To what, where: language, 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 (It, crow, I, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 matter	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 matter	advmod
5	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crow	det
10	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 explain	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 explain	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 explain	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 explain	aux
15	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 matter	parataxis
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 explain	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 can	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 can	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 well	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
22	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 done	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj:pass
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	aux:pass
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 badly	advmod
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 done	advmod
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 explain	ccomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 explain	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 heard	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	aux
38	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 told	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	It				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the crow				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	explain speech: assert in a quote	future	I			well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	future · passive		language		badly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	past	Kay		crow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	hear	past · perfect	Kay				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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