Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 209

Still, I've a lightning conductor in my great toe, and that will always tell me something."

Who acts: that · What happens: tell · To what, where: something, me · 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 (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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 've	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 've	nsubj
4	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 conductor	det
6	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conductor	compound
7	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 've	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 toe	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toe	nmod:poss
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 toe	amod
11	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conductor	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 tell	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 tell	advmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 tell	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	that	something	me			always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Topic

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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