Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 24

"You'd better stay where you are," said the old Mother-Toad, "for you know everything here, and you can tell what you have.

Who acts: You, old Toad · What happens: stay, be, say, know, tell, have · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old Toad), 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	_	5 stay	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 are	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 are	nsubj
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Toad	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Toad	amod
14	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Toad	nsubj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Toad	punct
16	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 know	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 know	obj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 know	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	parataxis
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 have	obj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay in a quote	would	You			well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	does in a quote	present	you				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old Toad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know in a quote	present	you	everything	here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have in a quote	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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