Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 11

Our neighbor told me the same thing, but she laughed when she said it, and so I asked her if she could say 'On my honor,' and she could not; and I know by that the story about the storks is not true, and that they only tell it to us children for fun.'

Who acts: neighbor, roof, I, story, neighbors, my · What happens: tell, laugh, say, ask, know, not be · To what, where: same thing, me, tree, roof, honor, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor, roof, I, story), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 neighbor	nmod:poss
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laughed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 laughed	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laughed	nsubj
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 said	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laughed	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 asked	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laughed	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 say	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	ccomp
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 honor	punct
27	On	on	ADP	_	29 honor	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 honor	nmod:poss
29	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 honor	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 honor	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 could	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 could	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	conj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 could	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 know	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
39	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
40	by	by	SCONJ	_	49 true	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 true	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 story	det
43	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 true	nsubj
44	about	about	ADP	_	46 storks	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 storks	det
46	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 story	nmod
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 true	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 true	advmod
49	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 know	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 tell	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 tell	cc
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 tell	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 tell	nsubj
54	only	only	ADV	_	55 tell	advmod
55	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 tell	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 us	case
58	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 tell	obl
59	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 tell	iobj
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 fun	case
61	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 tell	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 tell	punct
63	'	'	PUNCT	_	55 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Our neighbor	the same thing	me		tree rules
2	laugh	past	roof				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	roof	tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	past	I		roof		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	roof	my honor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent honor=Topic
6	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	not is	present	the story about the storks			true property	tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	present	neighbors = neighbor	tree	children	to us; for fun	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient it=Topic
9	honor		my				nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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