Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 4

Listen to what he told me.

Who acts: you, he · What happens: listen, tell · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, he), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Listen	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	he		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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