Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 39

"But Kay! tell me about little Kay!" said Gerda, "was he amongst the crowd?"

Who acts: Kay, Gerda · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: footmen · 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 (Kay, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 Kay	cc
3	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Kay	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 crowd	csubj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 Kay	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Kay	amod
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
13	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 crowd	cop
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 crowd	nsubj
18	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	20 crowd	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crowd	det
20	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 crowd	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 crowd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Kay	footmen = footman	about little Kay	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: ask	past	Gerda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	Kay		amongst the crowd	tree rules

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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