Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 38

Every evening he goes to a party, where his nice supper costs him nothing: would to Heaven I could but change with him!

Who acts: lieutenant, nice supper, I · What happens: go, cost, change · To what, where: party, nothing, lieutenant

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lieutenant, nice supper, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 party	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 party	det
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 costs	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 costs	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 supper	nmod:poss
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 supper	amod
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 costs	nsubj
13	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 costs	iobj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 costs	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 would	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 change	aux
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Heaven	case
19	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 would	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 change	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 change	aux
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 change	cc
23	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 change	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	lieutenant			a party	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location
2	cost	present	lieutenant's nice supper	nothing	lieutenant				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary nothing=Value
3	change	could	I					with lieutenant	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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