Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 38

"Believe every word of what we tell you," said the doves, and cooed down into their poultry-yard. "

Who acts: you, we, doves · What happens: believe, tell, say, coo down · To what, where: word, you · 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 (you, we, doves), 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	_	2 Believe	punct
2	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Believe	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	nsubj:outer
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 word	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doves	det
14	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cooed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cooed	cc
17	cooed	coo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 cooed	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 yard	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 yard	nmod:poss
21	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yard	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 poultry	punct
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cooed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Believe	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe in a quote	imperative	you not said here	every word			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	we		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the doves				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	coo down	past	the doves not said here			into doves's poultry yard; down property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into yard=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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