Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 95

"That I may not tell you," said Death; "but thus far you may learn, that one of the two flowers represents your own child.

Who acts: Death, you, one · What happens: not tell, say, learn, represent · To what, where: That, you, own 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 (Death, you, one), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tell	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 learn	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 learn	cc
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 learn	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 learn	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	aux
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 one	det
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 represents	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 flowers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flowers	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 flowers	nummod
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
27	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	ccomp
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 child	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 child	amod
30	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 represents	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	may	Death	That	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Death				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	learn in a quote	may	you			far property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	represent in a quote	present	that one of the two flowers	your own child			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=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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