Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 171

It will be a great pleasure for me to have you with me; I shall pay the travelling expenses!”

Who acts: It, me, I · What happens: be, have, pay · To what, where: great pleasure, you, travelling expenses

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, me, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleasure	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pleasure	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleasure	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pleasure	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleasure	amod
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleasure	csubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pay	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pay	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pay	aux
17	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 expenses	det
19	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 expenses	compound
20	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pay	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 pleasure	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pleasure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	future	It	a great pleasure		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	me	you	with me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	pay	shall	I	the travelling expenses		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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