The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 63

The reindeer told Gerda’s whole history, but first he told his own, for that seemed to him much more important, and Gerda was so cold that she could not speak.

Who acts: reindeer, fish, Gerda · What happens: tell, seem, be, not speak · To what, where: whole history, own, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, fish, Gerda), 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	2 reindeer	det
2	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 history	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Gerda	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 history	amod
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 told	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 seemed	obl
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 important	advmod
23	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cold	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cold	cc
26	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cold	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 cold	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 cold	advmod
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 speak	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 speak	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 speak	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 speak	advmod
34	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cold	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the reindeer	Gerda's whole history			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	fish	fish's own		first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent own=Recipient clause=Topic
3	seem	past			fish	for that; important property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Gerda			cold property	tree rules
5	not speak speech: other	could	Gerda				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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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