Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 19

"I will sing them all to you," said the mother; "but do not detain me now.

Who acts: mother · What happens: sing, say, not detain · To what, where: tears, you, mother · 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 (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	_	4 sing	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 detain	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 detain	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 detain	cc
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 detain	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 detain	advmod
19	detain	detain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 detain	obj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 detain	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	future	the mother = mother	tears = tear	you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not detain in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the mother not said here	the mother = mother		now	vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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