Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 5
So then she told the crow the whole story of her life and adventures, and asked him if he had seen little Kay.
Who acts: Gerda, he · What happens: tell, ask, see · To what, where: whole story, crow, him, little Kay · 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 (Gerda, he), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crow | det |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 adventures | cc |
| 14 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 life | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 asked | advcl |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kay | amod |
| 24 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Gerda | the whole story of Gerda's life and adventures | the crow | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Gerda not said here | him = he | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | he | little Kay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kay=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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