Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 42

I will tell you what to do, and the botanical professor, who lives close by here, will be so surprised.

Who acts: I, botanical professor · What happens: tell, do, live, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, botanical professor), 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 surprised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 surprised	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 professor	det
11	botanical	botanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 professor	amod
12	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surprised	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lives	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lives	nsubj
15	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 professor	acl:relcl
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 lives	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 here	case
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lives	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 professor	punct
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 surprised	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 surprised	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 surprised	advmod
23	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	live	present	the botanical professor		close property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by here=Location
4	is	future	the botanical professor		surprised 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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