Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 107

The very place and situation had been pointed out to her, and she was told that the flower would restore her father to health and strength.

Who acts: flower · What happens: point out, tell, restore · To what, where: place, princess, father, health · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 place	advmod
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointed	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 situation	cc
5	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 place	conj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pointed	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 pointed	aux:pass
8	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 pointed	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pointed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux:pass
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pointed	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 restore	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flower	det
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 restore	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 restore	aux
21	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	ccomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 restore	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 health	case
25	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 restore	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 strength	cc
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 health	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	point out	past · perfect · passive		the place and situation	princess	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	restore	would	the flower	princess's father	health and strength	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Theme to health=Recipient

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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