Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 98

Tell me, you were on the balcony that evening; you went through the door, and what did you see?"

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be, go, see · To what, where: me, balcony, door · 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), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 balcony	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 balcony	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 balcony	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 balcony	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 balcony	det
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 evening	det
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 balcony	obl:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 see	obj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	past	you		the balcony	evening	tree rules
3	go	past	you		the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location
4	see	past · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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