Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 133

First, they refuse me my golden shoes; then I have to lie on damp linen, and to stand in a draught; and to crown all, they fasten a wife upon me.

Who acts: relations, I · What happens: refuse, have, lie, stand, crown, fasten · To what, where: me, damp linen, draught, all, wife

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 refuse	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refuse	nsubj
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 refuse	obj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoes	nmod:poss
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 refuse	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 have	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 refuse	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lie	mark
14	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 linen	case
16	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 linen	amod
17	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lie	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stand	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stand	mark
21	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lie	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 draught	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 draught	det
24	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stand	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 crown	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crown	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 crown	mark
28	crown	crown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	conj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 crown	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fasten	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fasten	nsubj
32	fasten	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crown	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wife	det
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fasten	obj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 fasten	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	relations = relation	me			first property	tree rules
2	have	present	I			then		tree rules
3	lie	to-infinitive	I not said here		damp linen			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on linen=Location
4	stand	to-infinitive	I not said here		a draught			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in draught=Location
5	crown	to-infinitive	relations = relation not said here	all				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
6	fasten	present	relations = relation	a wife			upon me	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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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