Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 15

Mother says you can tell a fairy tale about anything you look at or touch."

Who acts: Mother, you · What happens: say, tell, look · To what, where: fairy tale · 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 (Mother, 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 tale	nmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anything	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 touch	case
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 touch	cc
15	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	can	you	a fairy tale	about anything	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient about anything=Topic
3	look	present	you		at touch	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at touch=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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