Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 112

"You are little bright suns," said Gerda; "tell me if you know where I can find my play-fellow."

Who acts: You, Gerda · What happens: be, say, tell, know, find · To what, where: little bright suns, Gerda, play fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Gerda), 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	_	6 suns	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 suns	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suns	cop
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 suns	amod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 suns	amod
6	suns	sun	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 suns	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 suns	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 find	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 know	ccomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fellow	nmod:poss
23	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fellow	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	little bright suns		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Gerda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Gerda	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	find in a quote	can	Gerda	my play fellow		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic

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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