Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 15

"Poor old bachelor, cut your wood, Such a nightcap was never seen; Who would think it was ever clean?

Who acts: Poor old bachelor, wood · What happens: cut, not see, think, be · To what, where: wood, nightcap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor old bachelor, wood), 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	_	6 cut	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bachelor	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bachelor	amod
4	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wood	nmod:poss
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
10	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 nightcap	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nightcap	det
12	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux:pass
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cut	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
17	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 think	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clean	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clean	cop
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 clean	advmod
23	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 think	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut in a quote	infinitive	Poor old bachelor	your wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
2	not see in a quote	past · passive		such nightcap			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	think speech: other in a quote	would					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	wood		ever	clean 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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