Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 109
"But I changed away the sheep for a goose."
Who acts: wife · What happens: change away · To what, where: sheep
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 (wife), 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 changed | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 changed | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 goose | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 goose | det |
| 10 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change away in a quote | past | the wife = wife | the sheep | for a goose; away property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme for goose=Co-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: «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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