Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 49

But now tell me how you managed to get him back."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, manage, get back · To what, where: me, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 managed	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 managed	nsubj
7	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 managed	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	manage	past	you				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get back	to-infinitive	you not said here	horse			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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