Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 42
Ask them only and you will hear what they'll tell you.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: ask, hear, tell · To what, where: father, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | iobj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Ask | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hear | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | aux |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 tell | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hear | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hear | future | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | father | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=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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