Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 20

For this they have covered you over--they never do the like to me; for I cost more.

Who acts: I · What happens: cover over, like, cost · To what, where: this, me, more

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 covered	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 covered	nsubj:pass
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 covered	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	aux
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 do	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 covered	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	5 covered	compound:prt
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 like	det
13	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 like	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cost	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 cost	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 cost	nsubj
19	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 like	conj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 cost	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cover over	present · perfect · passive		this		tree rules
2	like	present · do-support			me	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	cost	present	I	more		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

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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