Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 164

"I only ask one thing," she replied; "let no one know that you have a little bird who tells you everything.

Who acts: heart, Everything, one, you, little bird · What happens: ask, reply, let, know, have, tell · To what, where: one thing, one, little bird, everything, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Everything, one, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thing	nummod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 replied	nsubj
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bird	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bird	amod
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 tells	nsubj
24	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bird	acl:relcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tells	iobj
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 tells	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	heart	one thing		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	heart			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive	Everything not said here	no one		tree rules
4	know in a quote	infinitive	no one not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have in a quote	present	you	a little bird		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	a little bird	everything	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient everything=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: «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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