Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 16

I am a hen from Kjoge," and then she told him how many inhabitants the town contained, and about a battle that had been fought there, which really was not worth speaking of.

Who acts: I, Kjoge, many inhabitants, battle · What happens: be, tell, contain, fight, not be, speak · To what, where: hen, Kjoge, Tuk, battle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kjoge, many inhabitants, battle), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hen	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hen	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Kjoge	case
6	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hen	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hen	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hen	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 told	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hen	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 inhabitants	amod
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 contained	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contained	nsubj
19	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 battle	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 battle	cc
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 battle	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 battle	det
24	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contained	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fought	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fought	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 fought	aux:pass
28	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 battle	acl:relcl
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 fought	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 worth	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 worth	nsubj
32	really	really	ADV	_	35 worth	advmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 worth	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 worth	advmod
35	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 battle	conj
36	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 worth	xcomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 speaking	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a hen		Kjoge			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Kjoge		Tuk		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	contain in a quote	past	many inhabitants	a battle					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot battle=Theme
4	fight in a quote	past · perfect · passive		a battle		there			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
5	not is in a quote	past	a battle					worth property	tree rules
6	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	a battle not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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