Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 105
You always think of everything; we have just enough pasture for a sheep.
Who acts: You, we · What happens: think, have · To what, where: enough pasture
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 (You, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 think | advmod |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 everything | case |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 enough | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pasture | amod |
| 11 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sheep | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pasture | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | You | of everything; always property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | enough pasture | for a sheep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=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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