Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 27

"'Then I must pay it away in the dark,' said the man who had received me.

Who acts: man · What happens: pay away, say, receive · To what, where: ring, dark, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	6 pay	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct
3	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 pay	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pay	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pay	aux
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pay	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 pay	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 received	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 received	aux
19	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 man	acl:relcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 received	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay away in a quote	must	the man = man	ring	the dark	then	away property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	receive in a quote	past · perfect	the man	the man = man				vn obtain-13.5.2 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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