Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 49

Helga said she had often heard her singing on the wild moor, so she determined to send a message by her.

Who acts: Helga, nightingale · What happens: say, hear, sing, determine, send · To what, where: nightingale, wild moor, message · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, nightingale), 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	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 heard	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 moor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moor	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moor	amod
12	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 determined	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 determined	nsubj
16	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 send	mark
18	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 determined	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 message	det
20	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 send	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 send	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Helga				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	Helga	nightingale		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	gerund	Helga not said here		the wild moor		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moor=Location
4	determine	past	nightingale				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	send	to-infinitive	nightingale not said here	a message		by nightingale	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

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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