Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 30

Her grandmother called the little birds fishes, or she would not have understood her; for she had never seen birds.

Who acts: grandmother, shadow · What happens: call, not understand, not see · To what, where: birds fishes, 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 (grandmother, shadow), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandmother	nmod:poss
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fishes	compound
7	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 understood	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 understood	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 understood	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 understood	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 understood	aux
14	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 called	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 understood	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 birds	amod
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past	shadow's grandmother		birds fishes	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient
2	not understand	would · perfect	grandmother	shadow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	not see	past · perfect	shadow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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