Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 14

“I say, master! will you give this to the old man over the way from me?

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: say, give · To what, where: master, this, old man, way · 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 (boy, 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 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 give	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	boy	master					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	you	this	the old man	the way from me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to man=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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