Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 13
Pray tell me which of the flowers I shall choose for my wife.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pray, tell, choose · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. 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), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pray | conj |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 choose | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 choose | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 choose | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 choose | aux |
| 10 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 choose | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | choose | shall | I | of the flowers; for my wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |
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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