Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 119

I can remember things and tell stories!

Who acts: I · What happens: remember, tell · To what, where: things, stories · 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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remember	conj
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	can	I	things					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	stories					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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