Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 16

"Only tell me which way he has gone," said the mother; "tell me the way, I will find him."

Who acts: weight, mother · What happens: tell, go, say, find · To what, where: way, mother, weight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gone	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 way	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		which way	the mother = mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · perfect	weight	which way not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the way	the mother = mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
5	find in a quote	future	the mother = mother	weight		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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