Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 16

"No," said Gerda; and then she told her all her history, and how fond she was of little Kay.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: history, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 told	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 history	det:predet
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 history	nmod:poss
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fond	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fond	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 fond	advmod
19	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Kay	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Kay	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Kay	case
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Kay	amod
24	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fond	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Gerda					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda	princess's history	princess	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient history=Topic
3	is	past	Gerda				of little Kay	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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