Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 94

Then the elfin girl said that the stories about the ring-finger and little Peter Playman had not yet been told.

Who acts: elfin girl · What happens: say, not tell · To what, where: stories · 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 (elfin girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	compound
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stories	det
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 told	nsubj:pass
9	about	about	ADP	_	13 finger	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 finger	det
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finger	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ring	punct
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stories	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Peter	cc
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Peter	amod
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 finger	conj
17	Playman	Playman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Peter	flat
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 told	advmod
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 told	aux:pass
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the elfin girl				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the stories about the ring finger and little Peter			yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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