Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 68

She is dead, so the two swan-maidens had said when they came home; and they made up quite a story about her, and this is what they told,--

Who acts: daughter, seas, this · What happens: be, say, come, make up, tell · To what, where: two swan maidens, story · 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 (daughter, seas, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maidens	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 maidens	nummod
8	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maidens	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 swan	punct
10	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dead	conj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 made	compound:prt
22	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	24 story	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 story	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 what	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 what	cc
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 what	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 what	cop
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 dead	parataxis
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	daughter		dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the two swan maidens		tree rules
3	come	past	seas = sea		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make up	past	seas = sea	quite story	about daughter	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
5	is a	present	this			tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	seas = sea			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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