Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 94

Tell me whether you still sing on Sundays, and tell me about your little sister Maria, and how my old comrade is, the other tin soldier.

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, sing, be · To what, where: me, other tin soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 sing	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sing	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod
6	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Sundays	case
8	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 sing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 sister	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sister	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sister	amod
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obl
17	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sister	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 soldier	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 soldier	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 is	advmod
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 comrade	nmod:poss
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 comrade	amod
23	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 soldier	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 soldier	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 soldier	amod
28	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 soldier	compound
29	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	sing speech: express	present	you			still; sunday		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me		about your little sister	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about sister=Topic
4	is a	present		the other tin soldier				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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