Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 66

"Why, of course," said the horrid men, "if you will pay his debt we will both promise not to touch him.

Who acts: horrid men, you, we · What happens: say, pay, promise, not touch · To what, where: debt, 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 (horrid men, you, we), 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	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	2 Why	advcl:relcl
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 men	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pay	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 pay	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 pay	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pay	aux
17	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 debt	nmod:poss
19	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pay	obj
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 promise	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 promise	aux
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 promise	nsubj
23	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pay	conj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 touch	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 touch	mark
26	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 promise	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 touch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the horrid men		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	man's debt	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	we		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not touch not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	man	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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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