Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 31

"That's the history of the glasses," said the tower-keeper Ole, "and it can be told with lacquer or only with grease; but I give it you with both!"

Who acts: That, history · What happens: be, say, tell, give · To what, where: history, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, history), 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 history	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 history	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 history	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 history	det
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 glasses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glasses	det
8	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 history	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 history	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 history	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ole	det
13	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Ole	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 tower	punct
15	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Ole	compound
16	Ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Ole	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Ole	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj:pass
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	aux:pass
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 lacquer	case
25	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 grease	cc
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 grease	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 grease	case
29	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lacquer	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 give	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
33	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 both	case
37	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 give	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the history		of the glasses	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the history				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	can · passive		history		with lacquer or grease	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	give in a quote	present	the history = history	history	you	with both	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme

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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