Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 99

Besides, you good-for-nothing rascal, it is strictly forbidden to catch birds in the royal gardens of Fredericksburg; but your blue uniform betrays where you come from.”

Who acts: blue uniform, you · What happens: forbid, catch, betray, come · To what, where: rascal, birds, royal gardens

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue uniform, you), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 rascal	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 for	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 rascal	compound
9	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forbidden	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forbidden	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 forbidden	aux:pass
13	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	14 forbidden	advmod
14	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 good	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 catch	mark
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forbidden	xcomp
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 catch	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 gardens	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gardens	det
20	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gardens	amod
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 catch	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Fredericksburg	case
23	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gardens	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 betrays	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 betrays	cc
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 uniform	nmod:poss
27	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 uniform	amod
28	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 betrays	nsubj
29	betrays	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	parataxis
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 come	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 betrays	ccomp
33	from	from	ADP	_	32 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 betrays	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 betrays	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive		rascal		strictly property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive		birds	the royal gardens of Fredericksburg		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3	betray	present	your blue uniform				tree rules
4	come	present	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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