Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 153
It would give me great pleasure, and I will pay all expenses."
Who acts: companion, I · What happens: give, pay · To what, where: great pleasure, me, expenses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companion, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleasure | amod |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pay | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | aux |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 expenses | det |
| 13 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pay | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | companion | great pleasure | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay | future | I | all expenses | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset |
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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