Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 28

Oh, tell me all about it; you know I cannot bear to be kept waiting at a time when I am hatching eggs."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, know, not bear, keep, wait, hatch · To what, where: me, eggs · 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 (you, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bear	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bear	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bear	advmod
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 kept	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	aux:pass
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bear	advcl
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 hatching	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hatching	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hatching	aux
25	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 waiting	advcl
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hatching	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		about race	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about it=Topic
2	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not bear	can	I					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	keep	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here					tree rules
5	wait	gerund	I not said here			time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hatch	present · progressive	I	eggs				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product

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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