Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 28

"Have you anything to tell me, little bird?" asked Ulysses.

What happens: have, tell, ask · To what, where: anything, little bird, me, Ulysses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 anything	nsubj
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 Have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 anything	acl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bird	punct
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	iobj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	anything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	little bird	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past		Ulysses	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ulysses=Recipient 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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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