Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 67

You may depend upon that;" and then they took the money he offered them, laughed at him for his good nature, and went their way.

Who acts: You, limbs, man · What happens: depend, take, offer, laugh, go · To what, where: money, limbs, way

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 (You, limbs, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 depend	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 depend	aux
3	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 depend	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 depend	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 depend	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 took	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 depend	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	nsubj
15	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 money	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughed	punct
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laughed	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 nature	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nature	nmod:poss
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nature	amod
24	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laughed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	depend	may	You				upon that	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	take in a quote	past	limbs = limb	the money		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	offer in a quote	past	man	the money not said here	limbs = limb			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	laugh in a quote	past	limbs = limb not said here				at man; for man's good nature	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go in a quote	past	limbs = limb not said here	limbs's way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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