Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 55

"You ought not to have told me," said she, "at such a time as this; the eggs might suffer.

Who acts: child, eggs · What happens: not tell, say, suffer · To what, where: You, child · 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 (child, eggs), 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	_	7 told	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 told	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 told	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 suffer	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eggs	det
23	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 suffer	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 suffer	aux
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	ought · perfect · passive		You	child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	child			time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suffer in a quote	might	the eggs				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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