Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 11

My grandmother had heard a great deal of reading in her day, and she told me three principal qualifications were necessary--understanding, imagination, and feeling. '

Who acts: grandmother, three principal qualifications · What happens: hear, tell, be, feel, deal · To what, where: great deal, me, reading · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, three principal qualifications), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandmother	nmod:poss
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 reading	case
9	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 day	nmod:poss
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reading	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 qualifications	nummod
19	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 qualifications	amod
20	qualifications	qualification	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 necessary	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 necessary	cop
22	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	ccomp
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 understanding	punct
24	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 necessary	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 imagination	punct
26	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 understanding	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 feeling	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 feeling	cc
29	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 feeling	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 feeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	My grandmother	a great deal of reading in grandmother's day			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	grandmother		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	past	three principal qualifications			necessary property	tree rules
4	feel	gerund	My grandmother not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	deal			reading in grandmother's day			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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