Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 116

"Can you tell me anything about the poetry of the future?" resumed the man.

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, resume · To what, where: anything, woman, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 resumed	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 poetry	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poetry	det
9	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 future	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 future	det
12	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poetry	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
15	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resumed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you	anything	the woman = woman			about the poetry of the future	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic
2	resume	past		the man					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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