Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 184

I will take you with me for old acquaintance' sake; I will pay the travelling expenses, and you write the descriptions--and if they are a little amusing for me on the way!

Who acts: I, you, descriptions · What happens: take, pay, write, be · To what, where: you, travelling expenses, descriptions, way

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 (I, you, descriptions), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 sake	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sake	amod
9	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sake	compound
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 acquaintance	punct
11	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pay	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 pay	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pay	aux
15	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 expenses	det
17	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 expenses	compound
18	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pay	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 write	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 write	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 write	nsubj
22	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 descriptions	det
24	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 write	obj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 amusing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 amusing	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 amusing	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 amusing	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 amusing	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 amusing	obl:unmarked
32	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 write	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 amusing	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 way	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 amusing	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	future	I	you		with me; for old acquaintance sake	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for sake=Beneficiary
2	pay	future	I	the travelling expenses			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset
3	write	present	you	the descriptions			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	descriptions = description		the way	for me; a little obl:unmarked; amusing property	tree rules

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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