Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 33

At length she could bear it no longer, and told one of her sisters all about it.

Who acts: face · What happens: bear, tell · To what, where: snow, length, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bear	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	aux
5	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bear	obj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 bear	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 told	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sisters	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sisters	nmod:poss
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 it	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	could	face	snow		length		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	face not said here	one of face's sisters				about snow	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient about it=Topic

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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