Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 184

I'll tell you the whole story, and thank you for drowning me; I am above you now, I am really very rich.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, thank, drown, be · To what, where: whole story, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thank	cc
10	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 thank	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 drowning	mark
13	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thank	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 drowning	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 am	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 am	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
18	above	above	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 am	obl
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 am	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rich	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 rich	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rich	cop
24	really	really	ADV	_	26 rich	advmod
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 rich	advmod
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	the whole story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present	I not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	drown	gerund	I not said here	me			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is	present	I			rich property	tree rules

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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