Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 27
“The gilding decays, But hog's leather stays!”
Who acts: leather · What happens: stay
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leather), 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 | _ | 4 decays | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 decays | det |
| 3 | gilding | gilding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decays | compound |
| 4 | decays | decay | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stays | punct |
| 6 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stays | cc |
| 7 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leather | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 hog | case |
| 9 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stays | nsubj |
| 10 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 decays | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 decays | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 decays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | present | hog's leather | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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