Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 121

I may tell you unpleasant truths, but that is a proof of my friendship.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: unpleasant truths, you, proof · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 truths	amod
6	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proof	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 proof	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 proof	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 proof	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 proof	det
12	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 friendship	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friendship	nmod:poss
15	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proof	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	I	unpleasant truths	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic
2	is a	present	that	a proof				of my friendship	tree rules

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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