Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 55

"The cold is delightful," said the Snow Man; "but do tell me tell me; only you must not clank your chain so; for it jars all through me when you do that."

Who acts: cold, Snow Man, you, chain · What happens: be, say, tell, not clank, jar, do · To what, where: Snow Man, chain, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, Snow Man, you, chain), 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 delightful	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cold	det
3	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delightful	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 delightful	cop
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Man	det
10	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Man	compound
11	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 clank	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	25 clank	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 clank	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 clank	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 clank	advmod
25	clank	clank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chain	nmod:poss
27	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clank	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	25 clank	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 jars	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 jars	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 jars	nsubj
32	jars	jar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
33	all	all	ADV	_	35 me	advmod
34	through	through	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 jars	obl
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 do	advmod
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 do	nsubj
38	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 jars	advcl
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 do	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 jars	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 jars	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the cold			delightful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Snow Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support			the Snow Man = man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the Snow Man = man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	not clank in a quote	must	you	your chain			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme
6	jar in a quote	present	chain			through the Snow Man = man	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
7	do in a quote	present	you	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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