Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 120

That's what all the reports said, and who did not hear them?

Who acts: That, reports · What happens: be, say, not hear · To what, where: reports · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (That, reports), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reports	det
6	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hear	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the reports		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not hear	past · do-support		reports = report	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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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