Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 64
"I have only fifty dollars," said John, "it is all I possess in the world, but I will give it to you if you will promise me faithfully to leave the dead man in peace.
Who acts: John, money, you · What happens: have, say, be, give, promise, leave · To what, where: fifty dollars, world, money, you, John, dead man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (John, money, you), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 fifty | advmod |
| 5 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 dollars | nummod |
| 6 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 possess | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 possess | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 possess | nsubj:outer |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 possess | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 possess | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 possess | nsubj |
| 17 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 possess | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 possess | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 give | obl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 promise | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 promise | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 promise | aux |
| 32 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 give | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 promise | iobj |
| 34 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 32 promise | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 leave | mark |
| 36 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 promise | acl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 38 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leave | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 peace | case |
| 41 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leave | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | John | fifty dollars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | money | the world | all, possess property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | John | money | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 5 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | John | faithfully property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 6 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | the dead man | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme in peace=Location |
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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