Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 155

But I have not yet told you the 'more important' thing you were to hear.

Who acts: you · What happens: not tell, hear · To what, where: I, you · 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 told	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 important	punct
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 important	advmod
11	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 important	punct
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hear	mark
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thing	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I	you		yet		tree rules
2	hear	past	you						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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