Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 62

If he turns round, kill him and take away the money I paid him, but if he does not turn round let him go in peace."

Who acts: Bugge, you, I · What happens: turn round, kill, take away, pay, not turn round, let · To what, where: Bugge, money, peace

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (Bugge, you, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 turns	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	advcl
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turns	punct
6	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	conj
10	away	away	ADP	_	9 take	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 money	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 paid	nsubj
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 money	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paid	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 turn	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turn	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 turn	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 turn	advmod
22	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	advcl
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turn	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 peace	case
28	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn round a condition, not said to happen	present	Bugge			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	imperative	you not said here	Bugge			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	take away	infinitive	you not said here	the money			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	pay	past	I	Bugge			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
5	not turn round a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	Bugge			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	let	infinitive	you not said here	Bugge			tree rules
7	go	infinitive	Bugge not said here		peace		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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