Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 96

You shall tell your tales, for no one over there can do it so well; and we will sit in the stone rooms, where the pine logs are burning, and drink mead out of the golden drinking-horn of the old Norwegian kings.

Who acts: You, one, we, pine logs, your · What happens: tell, do, sit, burn, drink · To what, where: tales, tree, stone rooms, mead, golden drinking horn · 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 (You, one, we, pine logs), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tales	nmod:poss
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 one	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 there	case
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 one	nmod
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 do	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sit	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	aux
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 rooms	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rooms	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rooms	compound
25	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 burning	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 burning	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 logs	det
29	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 logs	compound
30	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 burning	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 burning	aux
32	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 rooms	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drink	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 drink	cc
35	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sit	conj
36	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drink	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	43 horn	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	43 horn	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 horn	det
40	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 horn	amod
41	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 horn	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 drinking	punct
43	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drink	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 kings	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 kings	det
46	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 kings	amod
47	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 kings	amod
48	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 horn	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	shall	You	your tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	can	no one	tree		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	sit	future	we		the stone rooms		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
4	burn	present · progressive	the pine logs				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	drink	infinitive	we not said here	mead	the golden drinking horn of the old Norwegian kings		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient
6	tell		your				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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