Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 39
But now tell me again all about little Kay, and why you went out into the world."
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, go out · To what, where: me, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 tell | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 again | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Kay | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Kay | amod |
| 9 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | now; again | about little Kay | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about kay=Topic | ||
| 2 | go out | past | you | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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