Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 58

In the morning Gerda told her all that the wood-pigeons had said; and the little robber-girl looked quite serious, and nodded her head, and said, "That is all talk, that is all talk.

Who acts: Gerda, wood pigeons, little robber girl, That · What happens: tell, say, look, nod, be · To what, where: girl, head, talk · 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, wood pigeons, little robber girl, That), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 said	det:predet
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 said	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pigeons	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pigeons	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
12	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
19	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 girl	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 robber	punct
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 serious	advmod
24	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looked	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nodded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nodded	cc
27	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nodded	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nodded	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 talk	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 talk	punct
35	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 talk	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 talk	cop
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 talk	det
38	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 talk	punct
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 talk	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 talk	cop
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 talk	det
43	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 talk	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda		girl	morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the wood pigeons					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the little robber girl				serious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	nod	past		girl's head				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	That	all talk				tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present	that	all talk				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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