Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 65

"Jurgen, I have something I want to say to you; let me be your manager, for you are like a brother to me; but Martin, whose housekeeper I am--he is my lover--but you need not tell this to the others."

Who acts: Martin, you, Jurgen · What happens: have, want, say, let, be, not tell · To what, where: Jurgen, you, Martin, manager, lover, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, you, Jurgen), 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	_	2 Jurgen	punct
2	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jurgen	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 have	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 something	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 say	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 manager	cop
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 manager	nmod:poss
18	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brother	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	25 brother	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 brother	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 brother	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 brother	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 brother	det
25	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 brother	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 Martin	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 Martin	cc
30	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 housekeeper	punct
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	33 housekeeper	nmod:poss
33	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Martin	appos
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 am	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Martin	cop
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 lover	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lover	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 lover	cop
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lover	nmod:poss
40	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Martin	appos
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 tell	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 tell	cc
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 tell	nsubj
44	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 tell	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 tell	advmod
46	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	parataxis
47	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 tell	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 others	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 others	det
50	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 tell	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Martin	Jurgen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	want in a quote	present	Martin				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Martin not said here		you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
4	let in a quote	infinitive		Martin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	is a in a quote	infinitive	Martin not said here	your manager			tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	you		Martin	for a brother	tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present		Martin			tree rules
8	is a in a quote	present	Jurgen	my lover			tree rules
9	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	this	the others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to other=Recipient

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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