Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 10

Small as their possessions were, they had one article they could not do without, and that was a horse, which contrived to live upon the grass which it found by the side of the high road.

Who acts: possessions, that, horse, article, couple · What happens: be, have, not do, contrive, live, find · To what, where: one article, horse, grass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possessions, that, horse, article), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8227): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 had	advcl
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	1 Small	mark
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 possessions	nmod:poss
4	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Small	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Small	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Small	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 article	nummod
10	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 article	acl:relcl
15	without	without	ADP	_	14 do	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horse	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 horse	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 horse	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 horse	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 contrived	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 contrived	nsubj
24	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 horse	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 live	mark
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 contrived	xcomp
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 grass	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 grass	det
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 live	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 found	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grass	acl:relcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 road	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 road	det
38	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 road	amod
39	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 side	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	couple's possessions			small property	tree rules
2	have	past	possessions = possession	one article			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Patient
3	not do	could	possessions = possession	one article not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Eventuality
4	is a	past	that	a horse			tree rules
5	contrive	past	a horse				tree rules
6	live	to-infinitive	a horse not said here		the grass		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Location
7	find	past	article	the grass		by the side of the high road	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
8	possess		couple				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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