Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 1

"Listen to what I say," said the magician, "you must choose something very easy, he is less likely to guess it then.

Who acts: magician, you · What happens: listen, say, choose, be, guess · To what, where: something, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, 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	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 what	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 Listen	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 magician	det
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 choose	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 choose	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 choose	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 choose	aux
16	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 choose	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 easy	advmod
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 choose	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 likely	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 likely	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 likely	cop
23	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 likely	advmod
24	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 choose	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 guess	mark
26	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 likely	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 guess	obj
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 guess	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the magician = magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	choose in a quote	must	you	something		easy property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	magician			less, likely property	tree rules
6	guess in a quote	to-infinitive	magician not said here	it	then		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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