Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 10

“Yes, if you can tell me exactly--for I must know that first--how deep the gutter is in the little street opposite, that you pass through in going to school.”

Who acts: you, I, gutter · What happens: tell, know, be, pass through, go · To what, where: me, little street opposite, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, gutter), 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	_	7 tell	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 know	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
15	that	that	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 know	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 opposite	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 deep	advmod
19	deep	deep	ADV	_	27 opposite	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gutter	det
21	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opposite	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 opposite	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 opposite	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 opposite	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 opposite	amod
26	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opposite	compound
27	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 pass	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 pass	nsubj
31	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
32	through	through	ADP	_	31 pass	compound:prt
33	in	in	SCONJ	_	34 going	mark
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 pass	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 school	case
36	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 going	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you	me		exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	must	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	the gutter		the little street opposite	deep property	tree rules
4	pass through in a quote	present	you				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go in a quote	gerund	you not said here		school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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