Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 123
YOU are perfectly right, and I shall remember it; but now you must tell me all YOU saw!”
Who acts: YOU, I · What happens: be, remember, tell, see · To what, where: pardon, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOU, I), 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 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remember | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 remember | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 remember | aux |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remember | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 tell | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | YOU | perfectly, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | shall | I | pardon | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | must | you | me | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | see | past | YOU | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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