Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 84

“The thing is, you must understand it,” said the narrator; “let us ask old Nanny.”

Who acts: thing, narrator, us · What happens: be, say, let, ask · To what, where: us, old Nanny · 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 (thing, narrator, us), 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	_	8 understand	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understand	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 understand	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 understand	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 understand	aux
8	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 understand	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 understand	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 understand	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrator	det
14	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Nanny	amod
21	Nanny	Nanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ask	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must · present	the thing			understand property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the narrator				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		old Nanny		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nanny=Recipient

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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