Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 16

You are so clever," said the reindeer; "I know you can tie all the winds of the world with a piece of twine.

Who acts: You, reindeer, I · What happens: be, say, know, tie, wind · To what, where: winds, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, reindeer, I), 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	4 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reindeer	det
9	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tie	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tie	aux
16	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	ccomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 winds	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 winds	det
19	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tie	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 winds	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 piece	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 piece	det
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 winds	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 twine	case
27	twine	twine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		clever property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the reindeer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	tie	can	you	all winds of the world	with a piece of twine	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent wind=Patient with piece=Co-Patient
5	wind			the world	with a piece of twine	nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient with=obl

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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