Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 66

You have heard what she told me, for she spoke loud enough, and you were listening."

Who acts: You, mother · What happens: hear, tell, speak, listen · To what, where: me · 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 (You, mother), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 heard	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 spoke	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoke	nsubj
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
12	loud	loud	ADV	_	11 spoke	advmod
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 spoke	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listening	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 listening	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 listening	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 listening	aux
18	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	You			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	mother	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	speak speech: other	past	mother		enough, loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	past · progressive	you			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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