Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 25

Be so kind as to give me your attention, and I will explain to you how I reckon from the beginning.

Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: be, give, explain, reckon, attend · To what, where: attention, me, you, beginning

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. 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, your), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	cop
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 kind	advmod
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 give	mark
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 attention	nmod:poss
9	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 explain	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 explain	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 explain	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 explain	aux
14	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 explain	obl
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 reckon	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 reckon	nsubj
19	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 explain	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 beginning	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beginning	det
22	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reckon	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here				kind property	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	you not said here	your attention	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient attention=Theme
3	explain speech: assert	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
4	reckon	present	I			from the beginning		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	attend		your					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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