Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 139

They should have offered me incense," he said, "for it was I who gave him the idea of the most famous of his songs--the drum song of 'The Way of the World;' and it was I who spat at the rose; I can bring a witness to that fact."

Who acts: offered incense, snail, I, incense, Way · What happens: offer, say, be, give, spat, bring · To what, where: grief, me, idea, incense, I, rose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (offered incense, snail, I, incense), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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