Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 11

But to be serious, I will tell you all about it, and how I am situated."

Who acts: I · What happens: be, tell, situate · To what, where: you, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	4 serious	cc
2	to	to	PART	_	4 serious	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 serious	cop
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 serious	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 you	nmod:unmarked
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 situated	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 situated	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 situated	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 situated	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 situated	aux:pass
18	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tell	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 serious	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 serious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				serious property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you	about wedding	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=Topic
3	situate	present · passive		I			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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