Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 119
"Yes, but I exchanged the fowl for a sack of shrivelled apples."
Who acts: wife · What happens: exchange, shrivell · To what, where: fowl
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 | _ | 6 exchanged | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 exchanged | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 exchanged | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 exchanged | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 exchanged | nsubj |
| 6 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fowl | det |
| 8 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exchanged | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sack | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exchanged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 apples | case |
| 13 | shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 apples | amod |
| 14 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sack | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exchanged | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exchanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exchange in a quote | past | the wife = wife | the fowl | for a sack of shrivelled apples | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme for sack=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | shrivell in a quote | participle | tree rules |
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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