Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 123

Do you know, almost as soon as you left me this morning, I began to think of what I could give you nice for supper this evening, and then I thought of fried eggs and bacon, with sweet herbs; I had eggs and bacon, but I wanted the herbs; so I went over to the schoolmaster's: I knew they had plenty of herbs, but the schoolmistress is very mean, although she can smile so sweetly.

Who acts: you, I, herbs, schoolmistress, schoolmaster · What happens: know, leave, begin, think, give, fry · To what, where: me, you, eggs, herbs, plenty · 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 (you, I, herbs, schoolmistress), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soon	punct
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 know	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 soon	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 left	iobj
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 think	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 what	acl:relcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 give	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 supper	case
27	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nice	obl
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 evening	det
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supper	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thought	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 thought	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 began	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 eggs	case
36	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 eggs	amod
37	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thought	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bacon	cc
39	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eggs	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 herbs	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 herbs	case
42	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 herbs	amod
43	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 eggs	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 had	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 thought	parataxis
47	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 had	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 bacon	cc
49	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eggs	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 wanted	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 wanted	cc
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 wanted	nsubj
53	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 had	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 herbs	det
55	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 wanted	obj
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 went	punct
57	so	so	ADV	_	59 went	advmod
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 went	nsubj
59	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
60	over	over	ADV	_	59 went	advmod
61	to	to	ADP	_	63 schoolmaster	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 schoolmaster	det
63	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 went	obl
64	's	's	PART	_	63 schoolmaster	case
65	:	:	PUNCT	_	67 knew	punct
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 knew	nsubj
67	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
68	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 had	nsubj
69	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 knew	ccomp
70	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 had	obj
71	of	of	ADP	_	72 herbs	case
72	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 plenty	nmod
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 mean	punct
74	but	but	CCONJ	_	79 mean	cc
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 schoolmistress	det
76	schoolmistress	schoolmistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 mean	nsubj
77	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	79 mean	cop
78	very	very	ADV	_	79 mean	advmod
79	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 knew	conj
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 smile	punct
81	although	although	SCONJ	_	84 smile	mark
82	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	84 smile	nsubj
83	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	84 smile	aux
84	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	79 mean	conj
85	so	so	ADV	_	86 sweetly	advmod
86	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	84 smile	advmod
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	you				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	leave	past	you		me	morning		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	begin	past	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	could	I		you		nice property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	I			then	of fried eggs and bacon and sweet herbs	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fry	participle						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	have	past	I	eggs and bacon				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
9	want	past	I	the herbs				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot herb=Theme
10	go over	past	I				to the schoolmaster; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
11	know	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
12	have	past	herbs = herb	plenty of herbs				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
13	is	present	the schoolmistress				mean property	tree rules
14	smile	can	schoolmaster				sweetly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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