Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 19

Pray, tell me a story."

Who acts: you · What happens: pray, tell · To what, where: story, me · 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	Pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pray	conj
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pray	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a story	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic

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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