Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 11

The old peasant rode into the town upon this horse, and his neighbors often borrowed it of him, and paid for the loan of it by rendering some service to the old couple.

Who acts: old peasant, neighbors · What happens: ride, borrow, pay, render, loan · To what, where: town, article, service, old couple

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 (old peasant, neighbors), 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	3 peasant	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peasant	amod
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 borrowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 borrowed	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neighbors	nmod:poss
14	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 borrowed	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 borrowed	advmod
16	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 borrowed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 borrowed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 paid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 paid	cc
22	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 loan	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 loan	det
25	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paid	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loan	nmod
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 rendering	mark
29	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 paid	advcl
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 service	det
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rendering	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 couple	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 couple	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 couple	amod
35	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rendering	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the old peasant			the town	upon this horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory
2	borrow	past	horse's neighbors	article			of horse; often property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	pay	past	the old peasant not said here				for the loan of article	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for loan=Theme
4	render	gerund	the old peasant not said here	some service	the old couple			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Theme to couple=Recipient
5	loan			article				nom loan «possession transitive»: of=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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