Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 118

"I am a straightforward girl," she said, "and I will tell you myself how it is.

Who acts: Molly, kind · What happens: be, say, tell · To what, where: straightforward girl, Molly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly, kind), 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	_	6 girl	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 girl	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 tell	iobj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tell	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 how	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 how	cop
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Molly	a straightforward girl			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Molly				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Molly		Molly		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient myself=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	kind			how property	tree rules

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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