Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 173

I thank you for telling the boy stories, but you must not confuse his ideas.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: thank, tell, not confuse · To what, where: you, boy stories, ideas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thank	nsubj
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thank	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stories	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stories	compound
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 telling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 confuse	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 confuse	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 confuse	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 confuse	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 confuse	advmod
14	confuse	confuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thank	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ideas	nmod:poss
16	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 confuse	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	I		you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	I not said here	the boy stories		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	not confuse	must	you	Hjalmar's ideas		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient

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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