Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 84

Sit down, now, on that stone, yonder, and tell me where you have been."

Who acts: you · What happens: sit down, tell, be · To what, where: stone, 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), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sit	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 yonder	punct
10	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	1 Sit	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 been	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 been	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 tell	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here		that stone	now	yonder property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	be	present · perfect	you					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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