Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 3

The reindeer told her all about Gerda's story, after having first told his own, which seemed to him the most important, but Gerda was so pinched with the cold that she could not speak. "

Who acts: reindeer, Gerda · What happens: tell, have, seem, pinch, not speak · To what, where: story, woman, own, reindeer, Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reindeer	det
2	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	all	all	ADV	_	9 story	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 story	case
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gerda	case
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 having	mark
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 told	advmod
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 having	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 told	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 important	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 important	advmod
24	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seemed	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pinched	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 pinched	cc
27	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 pinched	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pinched	aux:pass
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 pinched	advmod
30	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 cold	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cold	det
33	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pinched	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 speak	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 speak	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 speak	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 speak	advmod
38	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pinched	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the reindeer	Gerda's story	woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic
2	have	gerund	the reindeer not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the reindeer not said here	reindeer's own		first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent own=Recipient clause=Topic
4	seem	past			reindeer	important property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	pinch	past · passive		Gerda		with the cold	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with cold=Instrument
6	not speak speech: other	could	Gerda				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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