Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 13

I ought to tell you a story, but the worst of it is, I do not know any more."

Who acts: I, worst · What happens: tell, not be · To what, where: story, you · 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, worst), 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	4 tell	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 worst	det
11	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 know	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 worst	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 know	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	ought	I	a story	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
2	not is	present · do-support	the worst					know property	tree rules

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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