Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 74
Yes, I have many stories to relate; but I need not tell everything I know.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, relate, not tell, know · To what, where: many stories, everything · 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 (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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 relate | mark |
| 8 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stories | acl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | parataxis |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 tell | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | many stories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | I not said here | many stories not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | present | I | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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