Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 74

"Just tell me what I owe you," said the shadow, "for I do not like to be in debt to any man."

Who acts: you, shadow, I · What happens: tell, owe, say, not like, be · To what, where: shadow, you, debt · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, shadow, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 tell	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 owe	nsubj
7	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 owe	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 like	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 like	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 like	advmod
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	24 debt	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 debt	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 debt	case
24	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 like	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 debt	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the shadow = shadow			tree rules
2	owe in a quote	present	the shadow = shadow	you				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the shadow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not like in a quote	present · do-support	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive				debt	to any man	tree rules

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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