Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 14

“I ought now to tell you a story; but I don't know any more.”

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, not know · To what, where: story, you · 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 (I), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tell	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
16	any	any	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 know	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	ought	I	a story	you		now		tree rules
2	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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