Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 91

"Here are my five fingers," said the old goblin; "now tell me a story for each of them."

Who acts: five fingers · What happens: be, say, tell · To what, where: old goblin, story, five fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five fingers), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fingers	nmod:poss
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fingers	nummod
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fingers	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fingers	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goblin	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goblin	amod
12	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 story	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 each	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my five fingers	the old goblin				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		a story	my five fingers = finger	now	for each	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=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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