Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 20

And, more delightful still, the gingerbread seller knew all sorts of things to tell and could even relate stories about his own gingerbread.

Who acts: gingerbread seller · What happens: know, tell, relate, sort · To what, where: sorts, stories, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gingerbread seller), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 delightful	advmod
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knew	ccomp
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 delightful	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seller	det
8	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seller	compound
9	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorts	det
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knew	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 things	case
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sorts	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 relate	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 relate	aux
19	even	even	ADV	_	20 relate	advmod
20	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 relate	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	25 gingerbread	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 gingerbread	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gingerbread	amod
25	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stories	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the gingerbread seller	all sorts of things		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	relate	could		stories	about seller's own gingerbread	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
4	sort			things		nom sort «cognition 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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