Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 113

We can let the goose walk about with a string tied to her leg, so she will be fatter still before we roast her."

Who acts: We, goose, cow · What happens: let, walk, tie, be, roast · To what, where: string, cow

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 (We, goose, cow), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goose	det
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	nsubj
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	xcomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 string	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 string	det
10	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
11	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 string	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 leg	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leg	nmod:poss
14	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fatter	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 fatter	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fatter	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fatter	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 fatter	cop
20	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 let	xcomp
21	still	still	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 roast	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 roast	nsubj
24	roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 roast	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	can	We		still		tree rules
2	walk	present	the goose			with a string; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tie	participle		a string not said here		to cow's leg	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leg=Co-Patient
4	is	future	cow			fat property	tree rules
5	roast	present	we	cow			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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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