Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 15

"I must tell you," said she, "that to-day is my birthday; and in honor of it I have been intrusted with a pair of goloshes, to introduce amongst mankind.

Who acts: few unimportant, that · What happens: tell, say, be, intrust, introduce, honor · To what, where: you, birthday, few unimportant, honor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few unimportant, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 birthday	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 birthday	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 birthday	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 that	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 birthday	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 birthday	nmod:poss
18	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 intrusted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 intrusted	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 honor	case
22	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 intrusted	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 honor	nmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 intrusted	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 intrusted	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 intrusted	aux:pass
28	intrusted	intrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 pair	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pair	det
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 intrusted	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 goloshes	case
33	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pair	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 introduce	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 introduce	mark
36	introduce	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 intrusted	conj
37	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	38 mankind	case
38	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 introduce	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	few unimportant = unimportant		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	few unimportant = unimportant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	that	my birthday				tree rules
4	intrust in a quote	present · perfect · passive		few unimportant = unimportant		honor of honor	with a pair of goloshes	tree rules
5	introduce in a quote	to-infinitive					amongst mankind	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	honor in a quote			honor				nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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