Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 5

"Now, drink your tea," said the mother; "perhaps you will hear a story."

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: drink, say, hear · To what, where: tea, story · 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 drink	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tea	nmod:poss
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 hear	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hear	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	infinitive		your tea	now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear in a quote	future	you	a story		perhaps property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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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