Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 87

“Tell me what I have to pay,” said the shadow; “for I don't like to be in any sort of debt.”

Who acts: you, shadow, thou · What happens: tell, have, pay, say, not like, be · To what, where: shadow, sort · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, shadow, thou), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Tell	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pay	mark
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 like	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 like	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 like	advmod
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	25 sort	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sort	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sort	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 sort	det
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 like	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 debt	case
27	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sort	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the shadow = shadow			tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	the shadow = shadow				tree rules
3	pay in a quote	to-infinitive	the shadow = shadow not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the shadow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not like in a quote	present · do-support	thou				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is in a quote	to-infinitive	thou not said here		any sort	of debt	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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