Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 63

He has cheated us; he owed us money which he could not pay, and now he is dead we shall not get a penny; so we mean to have our revenge, and let him lie like a dog outside the church door."

Who acts: Nonsense, we, our · What happens: cheat, owe, not pay, be, not get, mean · To what, where: us, money, penny, revenge, Nonsense

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nonsense, we, our), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheated	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheated	aux
3	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cheated	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 owed	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 owed	nsubj
7	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheated	conj
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 owed	iobj
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owed	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 pay	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pay	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pay	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 pay	advmod
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 money	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dead	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 dead	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dead	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owed	parataxis
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 get	advmod
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dead	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 penny	det
26	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 mean	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 mean	advmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 mean	nsubj
30	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheated	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 mean	xcomp
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 revenge	nmod:poss
34	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 mean	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 dog	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 dog	det
42	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lie	obl
43	outside	outside	ADP	_	46 door	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 door	det
45	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 door	compound
46	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dog	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cheated	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cheated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	present · perfect	Nonsense	us				vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Source
2	owe	past	Nonsense	money	us			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal money=Theme
3	not pay	could	Nonsense	money				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Asset
4	is	present	Nonsense			now	dead property	tree rules
5	not get	shall	we	a penny				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penny=Stimulus
6	mean	present	we					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	our revenge				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient
8	let	infinitive	we not said here	Nonsense				tree rules
9	lie	infinitive	Nonsense not said here				like a dog outside the church door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	revenge		our					nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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