Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 127

"Well, I like all this," said both the Englishmen; "always going down the hill, and yet always merry; it's worth the money to see it."

Who acts: Englishmen, it · What happens: like, say, go down, be, see · To what, where: this, hill, money · 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 (Englishmen, it), 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	_	5 like	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 like	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 this	advmod
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 like	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 Englishmen	cc:preconj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Englishmen	det
13	Englishmen	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 going	advmod
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	20 hill	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hill	det
20	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 merry	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 merry	cc
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 merry	advmod
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 merry	advmod
25	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 worth	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 worth	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 worth	cop
29	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 money	det
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 worth	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 worth	csubj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 worth	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	the Englishmen = englishman	this		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Englishmen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go down in a quote	gerund	the Englishmen not said here	the hill	always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent
4	is in a quote	present	it		worth property	tree rules
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive		money		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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