Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 2

And then she talked about it nearly the whole night, only slumbering for a few hours.

Who acts: sister · What happens: talk, slumber

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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	_	4 talked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 talked	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	obl
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 night	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slumbering	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 slumbering	advmod
13	slumbering	slumber	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 talked	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 hours	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hours	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hours	amod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slumbering	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	sister				then; night	about spell	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	slumber	gerund	sister not said here				hour		vn snooze-40.4 «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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