Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 64

However, I will speak about it to my tame sweetheart, and ask her advice; for I must tell you it will be very difficult to gain permission for a little girl like you to enter the palace."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: speak, ask, tell, be, gain, enter · To what, where: advice, you, permission, palace · 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 (I, 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 speak	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 sweetheart	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sweetheart	nmod:poss
10	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sweetheart	amod
11	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ask	cc
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speak	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 advice	nmod:poss
16	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 tell	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speak	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 difficult	expl
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 difficult	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 difficult	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 difficult	advmod
27	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tell	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 gain	mark
29	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 difficult	ccomp
30	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gain	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 girl	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 girl	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 girl	amod
34	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gain	obl
35	like	like	SCONJ	_	38 enter	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 enter	nsubj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 enter	mark
38	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 gain	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 palace	det
40	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 enter	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	future	I			about palace; to my tame sweetheart; however property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to sweetheart=Co-Agent
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here	crow's advice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	must	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	future				difficult property	tree rules
5	gain	to-infinitive		permission		for a little girl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent permission=Theme for girl=Beneficiary
6	enter	to-infinitive	you	the palace			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination

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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