Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 53

The next morning he gave John the handkerchief, and told him not to untie it till the princess asked him what she was thinking of.

Who acts: magician, princess · What happens: give, tell, not untie, ask, think · To what, where: handkerchief, John, magician · 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, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 handkerchief	det
8	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 untie	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 untie	mark
15	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 untie	obj
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 asked	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 untie	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 thinking	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thinking	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thinking	aux
25	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 asked	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 thinking	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	magician	the handkerchief	John	morning	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent john=Recipient handkerchief=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	magician not said here		magician		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not untie not said to happen	to-infinitive	magician not said here	handkerchief			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	the princess		magician		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	think speech: other	past · progressive	princess				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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