Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 25

“Yes,” said the thorn-bush; “but I will not tell thee which way he took, unless thou wilt first warm me up at thy heart.

Who acts: thorn bush, bush, thou · What happens: say, not tell, take, warm up · To what, where: way, thee, thorn bush, heart · 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 (thorn bush, bush, thou), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bush	det
7	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bush	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 thorn	punct
9	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 tell	iobj
18	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 way	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 warm	punct
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 warm	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 warm	nsubj
25	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 warm	aux
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 warm	advmod
27	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 warm	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 warm	compound:prt
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 heart	case
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 heart	nmod:poss
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warm	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the thorn bush					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the thorn bush = bush	which way	thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient way=Topic
3	take in a quote	past	bush	which way not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	warm up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	thou	the thorn bush = bush		thy heart	first property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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