Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 24

She said a great deal which was no doubt very clever; yet to me it sounded like nonsense.

Who acts: working, great deal, doubt · What happens: say, be, sound · To what, where: great deal · 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 (working, great deal, doubt), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 clever	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 clever	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 doubt	det
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clever	nsubj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 clever	advmod
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sounded	punct
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 sounded	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 yet	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sounded	nsubj
17	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 nonsense	case
19	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sounded	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	working	a great deal			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic
2	is	past	a great deal			clever property	tree rules
3	sound	past	doubt		yet	like nonsense	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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