Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 135

"What do I care for all that," said Gerda, "you need not tell me such stuff."

Who acts: Gerda, you · What happens: care, say, not tell · To what, where: such stuff, Gerda · 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 (Gerda, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 care	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 care	obl
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 all	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
16	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 tell	advmod
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stuff	amod
21	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	care in a quote	present · do-support	Gerda			for all	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Gerda				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	such stuff	Gerda		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient stuff=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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