Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 35

This is the story told me by the sparrows one evening when I begged them to relate some tale to me.

Who acts: This, story, I · What happens: be, tell, beg, relate · To what, where: story, me, heads, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, story, I), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 sparrows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sparrows	det
9	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 evening	nummod
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:unmarked
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 begged	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 relate	mark
17	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	xcomp
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 tale	det
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 relate	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 relate	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	the story				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the story		me	evening	by the sparrows	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	beg speech: request	past	I		heads = head			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	relate not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	some tale	me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to i=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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