Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 88

Some day, when you are an old man, you can say that the General gave you this precept."

Who acts: you, General · What happens: be, say, give · To what, where: old man, precept, you · 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, General), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 man	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 man	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 gave	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 General	det
16	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 precept	det
20	precept	precept	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	you	a old man			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	can	you			day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past	the General	this precept	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient precept=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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