Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 75

“Augh!” sighed he, “were we only on the other side the Alps, then we should have summer, and I could get my letters of credit cashed.

Who acts: Augh, we, Gave, my · What happens: sigh, be, have, get, cash, letter · To what, where: wind, other side, letters, credit

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 (Augh, we, Gave, my), 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 Augh	punct
2	Augh	Augh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sighed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Augh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Augh	punct
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sighed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 side	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 side	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 side	cop
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 side	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 side	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sighed	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Alps	det
17	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 side	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 have	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sighed	conj
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 get	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sighed	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 letters	nmod:poss
30	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 get	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 credit	case
32	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 letters	nmod
33	cashed	cash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 credit	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sigh	past	Augh	wind			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	we		the other side		tree rules
3	have in a quote	should	we			then; summer	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get in a quote	could	Gave	my letters of credit			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus
5	cash in a quote	participle		credit not said here			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	letter in a quote		my	credit			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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