Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 120

“I will take care of it, and remember all that you have told me; but you must show me the old man's grave!”

Who acts: wife, you · What happens: take, remember, tell, show · To what, where: care, that, wife, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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	_	4 take	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remember	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 remember	cc
10	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 told	det:predet
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 told	nsubj:pass
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 remember	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 show	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 show	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 show	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 show	aux
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 show	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grave	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 man	case
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 show	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	future	wife	care		of head	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location
2	remember in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
4	show in a quote	must	you	the old man's grave	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient grave=Topic

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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