Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 126
But now I can lend her ten, or a whole sackful, which I'm very glad of; it makes me laugh to think about it;" and then she gave him a hearty kiss.
Who acts: I, whole sackful, sackful, me, schoolmaster · What happens: lend, be, make, laugh, think, give · To what, where: ten, schoolmaster, me, hearty kiss, goose · 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 (I, whole sackful, sackful, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lend | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lend | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lend | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lend | aux |
| 5 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lend | iobj |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lend | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sackful | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sackful | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sackful | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sackful | amod |
| 12 | sackful | sackful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lend | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 glad | advmod |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sackful | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 glad | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 makes | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lend | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 think | mark |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 laugh | xcomp |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 think | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 makes | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 makes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gave | cc |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 gave | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gave | nsubj |
| 34 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 makes | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gave | iobj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 kiss | det |
| 37 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 kiss | amod |
| 38 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gave | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | can | I | ten | schoolmaster | now | a whole sackful obl | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ten=Theme | |
| 2 | is | present | a whole sackful | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | sackful | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | infinitive | me not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | me not said here | about sackful | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | past | schoolmaster | a hearty kiss | goose | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme |
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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