Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 79

Sit down, old friend, and tell me a little of how it happened, and what you saw in the house opposite to me while we were in those hot climates."

Who acts: you, little, we · What happens: sit down, tell, happen, see, be · To what, where: me, house opposite, hot climates · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little, we), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friend	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 happened	nsubj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 happened	mark
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 happened	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 saw	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 opposite	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 opposite	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opposite	compound
24	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 opposite	nmod
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 climates	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 climates	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 climates	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 climates	case
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 climates	det
32	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 climates	amod
33	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here			old friend vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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	happen	past	a little				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	you		the house opposite to me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is	past	we		that hot climates		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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