Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 38

But tell me now, once more, all about little Kay; and why you have started off in the wide world alone.”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, start off · To what, where: me, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 once	punct
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 tell	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Kay	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 Kay	advmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 Kay	case
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Kay	amod
12	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 started	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 started	cc
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 started	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 started	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 started	aux
18	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 tell	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 started	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
22	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 world	amod
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 started	obl
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 started	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		now	about little Kay	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about kay=Topic
2	start off	present · perfect	you			the wide world		alone property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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