Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 180

Can't you tell any larder stories?”

Who acts: you · What happens: not tell · To what, where: larder stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 stories	det
6	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stories	compound
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	you	any larder stories					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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