Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 10

"Yes, if you can tell me as nearly as possible how deep is the gutter in the little street where you go to school."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be, go · To what, where: boy, deep gutter, little street, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	7 tell	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 nearly	advmod
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 possible	mark
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nearly	advcl
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 deep	advmod
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gutter	amod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gutter	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gutter	det
17	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 street	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 street	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 street	amod
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gutter	nmod
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 go	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 street	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 school	case
26	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you		the boy = boy		nearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present		the deep gutter		the little street		tree rules
3	go in a quote	present	you			school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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