Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 54

So I told them roundly that, after all, they were nothing but puppets; and then they killed me.

Who acts: I, beings · What happens: tell, be, kill · To what, where: beings, nothing, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10323): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	roundly	roundly	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 nothing	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 nothing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nothing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	cop
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 told	ccomp
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 puppets	cc
15	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nothing	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 killed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 killed	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 killed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 killed	nsubj
20	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 killed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		beings = being		roundly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	past	beings = being	nothing		after all		tree rules
3	kill	past	beings = being	me		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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