Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 16

"Don't tell papa and mamma," she whimpered; "they would be angry."

Who acts: you, mamma, papa · What happens: not tell, whimper, be · To what, where: papa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mamma, papa), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mamma	cc
7	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 papa	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whimpered	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 whimpered	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 whimpered	nsubj
11	whimpered	whimper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 papa	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 angry	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 angry	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 angry	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 angry	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 angry	cop
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	papa and mamma		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent papa=Recipient
2	whimper	past	mamma			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	would	papa		angry property	tree rules

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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