Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 43

"I tell you what," said the soldier, "if you don't tell me what you are going to do with it, I will draw my sword and cut off your head."

Who acts: soldier, you · What happens: tell, say, not tell, go, do, draw · To what, where: you, soldier, sword, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 said	nsubj:outer
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soldier	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 tell	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tell	advmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 going	nsubj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 tell	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 draw	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 draw	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 draw	aux
30	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sword	nmod:poss
32	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 draw	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cut	cc
34	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 draw	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 cut	compound:prt
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cut	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the soldier = soldier		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you		the soldier = soldier		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	present · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive				with box	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	draw in a quote	future	the soldier = soldier	my sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
7	cut off in a quote	infinitive	the soldier = soldier not said here	your head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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