Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 15
Tell me, and I will procure the pearl."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, procure · To what, where: me, pearl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 procure | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 procure | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 procure | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 procure | aux |
| 7 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pearl | det |
| 9 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 procure | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | procure | future | I | the pearl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme |
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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