Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 11

“I will thank you not to speak to me,” said the garter.

Who acts: garter · What happens: thank, not speak, say · To what, where: you, garter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garter), 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 thank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thank	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	aux
4	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 speak	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thank	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 speak	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garter	det
15	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	future	the garter = garter	you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	the garter = garter not said here	the garter = garter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the garter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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