Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 81

"My betrothed has spoken so very highly of you, my little lady," said the tame crow, "your life-history, Vita, as it may be called, is very touching.

Who acts: tame crow · What happens: betroth, speak, say, call, touch · To what, where: history · 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 (tame crow), 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 spoken	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 betrothed	nmod:poss
3	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 highly	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 highly	advmod
8	highly	highly	ADV	_	5 spoken	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 highly	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lady	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoken	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crow	det
19	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 crow	amod
20	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 history	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 history	punct
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 history	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 history	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 life	punct
26	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Vita	punct
28	Vita	Vita	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 history	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 called	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 called	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 called	nsubj:pass
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 called	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 called	aux:pass
34	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 touching	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 touching	aux
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 touching	advmod
38	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 called	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	betroth in a quote	participle				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive			highly property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the tame crow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	call in a quote	may · passive		history		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	touch in a quote	present · progressive				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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