Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 107

Let him out; for I want him to tell me about the phoenix-bird.

Who acts: you, I, brother · What happens: let out, want, tell · To what, where: brother, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, brother), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Let	compound:prt
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 want	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	about	about	ADP	_	16 bird	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
14	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bird	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 phoenix	punct
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let out	imperative	you not said here	brother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	want	present	I	brother			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	brother not said here		me	about the phoenix bird	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about bird=Topic

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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