Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 16

Just paint the scenes I describe to you"--this is what he said to me--"and you will have a very pretty picture-book."

Who acts: you, I, this, MOON · What happens: paint, describe, be, say, have · To what, where: scenes, you, MOON, pretty picture book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. 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, this, MOON), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 paint	advmod
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scenes	det
4	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 describe	nsubj
6	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scenes	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 describe	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 describe	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 what	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 scenes	appos
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paint	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 book	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 pretty	advmod
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 book	amod
27	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 book	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 picture	punct
29	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paint	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 paint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	paint	imperative	you not said here	the scenes		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent scene=Destination
2	describe	present	I	the scenes not said here	you	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent scene=Theme to you=be'
3	is a in a quote	present	this			tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	MOON		MOON	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
5	have	future	you	a pretty picture book		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient

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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