Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 37
“But come and tell me who you are, and how you came here,” said she.
Who acts: you, Gerda · What happens: come, tell, be, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 come | cc |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 who | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 who | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | you | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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