Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 35

"Yes, of course," said she; "but tell me about the princess; I am tired of hearing about the swan's feathers."

Who acts: swan · What happens: say, tell, be, hear · To what, where: swan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (swan), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	2 Yes	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	ccomp
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 hearing	mark
23	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 tired	advcl
24	about	about	ADP	_	28 feathers	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 swan	det
26	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feathers	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 swan	case
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hearing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	swan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		swan	about the princess	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about princess=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	swan		tired property	tree rules
4	hear in a quote	gerund	swan not said here		about the swan's feathers	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about feather=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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