Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 74

But he is blind, so you must tell him some of your prettiest stories."

Who acts: neighbor, you · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: some, neighbor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 blind	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 tell	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blind	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 tell	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 stories	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stories	nmod:poss
14	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 stories	amod
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 some	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	neighbor					blind property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	must	you	some	neighbor				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some=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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