Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 5

“Now drink your tea,” said the boy's mother; “then, perhaps, you may hear a fairy tale.”

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: drink, say, hear · To what, where: tea, fairy tale · 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 (mother, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tea	nmod:poss
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 boy	case
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 hear	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 then	punct
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 hear	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 perhaps	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tale	det
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tale	compound
24	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	infinitive		your tea	now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear in a quote	may	you	a fairy tale	then	perhaps property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus

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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