Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 17

"I know the way," said the woman in the black garments; "but before I tell you, you must sing to me all the songs that you have sung to your child; I love these songs, I have heard them before.

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: know, say, tell, sing, love, hear · To what, where: way, you, woman, songs, child · 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 (woman, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 garments	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garments	det
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 garments	amod
14	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 woman	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sing	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 sing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sing	cc
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 tell	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sing	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 sing	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sing	aux
25	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sing	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 songs	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 songs	det
30	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sing	conj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 sung	nsubj:pass
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 sung	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sung	aux
34	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 songs	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 child	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 child	nmod:poss
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sung	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 love	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 love	nsubj
40	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 songs	det
42	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 love	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 heard	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 heard	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 heard	aux
46	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 love	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 heard	obj
48	before	before	ADV	_	46 heard	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the woman in the black garments = woman	the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman in the black garments				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the woman in the black garments = woman		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	sing speech: express in a quote	must	you		the woman in the black garments = woman		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
5	sing speech: express in a quote	present · perfect · passive		all songs	your child		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to child=Recipient
6	love in a quote	present	the woman in the black garments = woman	this songs			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
7	hear in a quote	present · perfect	the woman in the black garments = woman	songs = song		before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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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