Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 67

Now tell me what you've been doing and how you managed to catch him.”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, do, manage, catch · To what, where: me, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 doing	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 doing	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 doing	aux
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tell	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 managed	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 managed	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 managed	nsubj
12	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 managed	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 catch	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	present · perfect · progressive	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	manage	past	you				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	bit			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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