Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 60

"You will presently understand it," said the old man who told the story. "

Who acts: You, old man · What happens: understand, say, tell · To what, where: tree, 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 (You, old man), 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	_	5 understand	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	presently	presently	ADV	_	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand in a quote	future	You	tree	presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man	the story		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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