Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 167
I will pay the expenses of your journey, and you shall write a description of it to amuse us by the way.
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: pay, write, amuse, journey, describe · To what, where: expenses, description, us
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 (I, you, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | aux |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 expenses | det |
| 5 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pay | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expenses | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 write | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 write | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 write | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 write | aux |
| 13 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pay | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 description | det |
| 15 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 write | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 description | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 amuse | mark |
| 19 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 write | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 amuse | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 amuse | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | future | I | the expenses of your journey | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset | ||||
| 2 | write | shall | you | a description of description | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme | ||||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | you not said here | us | by the way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | describe | description | nom description «communication transitive»: 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: «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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