Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 25

"But I must tell our neighbour owl about it; she is such an estimable owl to talk to."

Who acts: Prenez garde, garde · What happens: tell, be, talk · To what, where: neighbour owl, estimable owl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prenez garde, garde), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 owl	nmod:poss
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owl	compound
8	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 owl	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 owl	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 owl	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 owl	cop
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 owl	det:predet
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 owl	det
16	estimable	estimable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 owl	amod
17	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 talk	mark
19	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 owl	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 talk	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	Prenez garde aux enfants = garde	our neighbour owl	about owl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent owl=Recipient about it=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	garde	such estimable owl		tree rules
3	talk in a quote	to-infinitive	Prenez garde aux enfants = garde not said here	such estimable owl not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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