Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 4

"I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance," said a third lizard; "the earth-worm had just come from the elfin hill, where he has been groping about in the earth day and night.

Who acts: third lizard, earth worm, worm, my · What happens: speak, say, come, grope, acquaint · To what, where: elfin hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third lizard, earth worm, worm, my), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 worm	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 worm	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worm	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 earth	punct
10	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 acquaintance	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 acquaintance	nmod:poss
13	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worm	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lizard	det
18	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 lizard	amod
19	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 worm	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 worm	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 earth	punct
25	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
28	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 hill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hill	det
31	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hill	compound
32	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 groping	punct
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 groping	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 groping	nsubj
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 groping	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 groping	aux
38	groping	grope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 hill	acl
39	about	about	ADP	_	43 day	case
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 day	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 day	det
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 day	compound
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 groping	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 night	cc
45	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 day	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	past	a third lizard = lizard			about hill; to a earth worm of my acquaintance	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to worm=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	a third lizard				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	past · perfect	the earth worm	the elfin hill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location
4	grope in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	worm		day		vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	acquaint in a quote		my				nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=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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