Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 16

“But before I tell it, thou must first sing for me all the songs thou hast sung for thy child!

Who acts: woman, thou · What happens: tell, sing · To what, where: way, songs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:1723): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 sing	cc
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sing	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	aux
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 sing	advmod
11	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sing	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 songs	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 songs	det
16	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sing	obj
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 sung	nsubj
18	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sung	aux
19	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 songs	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 child	case
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 child	nmod:poss
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sung	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the woman in the black clothes = woman		way		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	sing speech: express in a quote	must	thou	all songs		for the woman in the black clothes = woman; first property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for i=Beneficiary
3	sing speech: express in a quote	present · perfect	thou	all songs not said here		for thy child	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for child=Beneficiary

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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