Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 12

After a time they thought it would be as well to sell the horse, or exchange it for something which might be more useful to them.

Who acts: neighbors, article · What happens: think, be, exchange · To what, where: article, neighbors · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (neighbors, article), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sell	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sell	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sell	cop
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 sell	cc
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exchange	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 exchange	cc
17	exchange	exchange	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 sell	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exchange	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 something	case
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 exchange	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 useful	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 useful	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 useful	cop
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 useful	advmod
25	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 something	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 useful	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	neighbors = neighbor			time		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	would	article				sell property	tree rules
3	exchange	infinitive		article			for something	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for something=Co-Theme
4	is	might			neighbors = neighbor		useful property	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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