Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 21

I have something very dreadful to tell you," said he to the stork-mamma.

Who acts: I, something, papa · What happens: have, tell, say · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, something, papa), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 have	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dreadful	advmod
5	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dreadful	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 mamma	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mamma	det
15	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mamma	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 stork	punct
17	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	something not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	papa			to the stork mamma	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to mamma=Experiencer clause=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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