Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 107
The cow could not give all these, and her hair only falls off.
Who acts: cow, hair · What happens: not give, fall off · To what, where: these
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 (cow, hair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 these | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falls | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 falls | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 falls | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 falls | advmod |
| 13 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 falls | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | could | the cow | these | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | present | cow's hair | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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