Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 25

You may believe that every word I tell you is true," said the crow, "for I have a tame sweetheart who goes freely about the palace, and she told me all this."

Who acts: You, I, word, tame sweetheart, crow · What happens: believe, tell, be, say, have, go · To what, where: word, you, crow, tame sweetheart, this, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, word, tame sweetheart), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	aux
3	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 true	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crow	det
16	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sweetheart	det
23	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sweetheart	amod
24	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 goes	nsubj
26	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sweetheart	acl:relcl
27	freely	freely	ADV	_	26 goes	advmod
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 palace	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 palace	det
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 goes	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 this	det:predet
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 told	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe	may	You				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	every word not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	every word			true property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the crow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crow=Topic
5	have	present	I	a tame sweetheart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Patient
6	go	present	a tame sweetheart			about the palace; freely property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about palace=Location
7	tell speech: assert	past	crow	this	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient this=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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