Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 28

She made her old grandmother tell her all she knew of the ships and of the towns, the people and the animals.

Who acts: shadow, old grandmother · What happens: make, tell, know · To what, where: old grandmother, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (shadow, old grandmother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmother	amod
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 her	det
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ships	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ships	det
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knew	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 towns	cc
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 towns	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 towns	det
17	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ships	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 people	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ships	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 animals	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 animals	det
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ships	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	shadow	shadow's old grandmother			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	shadow's old grandmother not said here		shadow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	know	past	shadow			of the ships and the towns and the people and the animals	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of ship=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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