Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 10

"You must not speak to me," said the garter; "I do not think I have given you any encouragement to do so."

Who acts: You, garter · What happens: not speak, say, not think, give, do · To what, where: garter, encouragement, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, garter), 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	_	5 speak	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garter	det
12	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 think	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 think	advmod
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 given	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 given	aux
21	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 think	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 given	iobj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 encouragement	det
24	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 given	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 given	advcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 do	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	must	You		the garter = garter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the garter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	the garter = garter			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	give in a quote	present · perfect	the garter = garter	any encouragement	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient encouragement=Theme
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the garter = garter not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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