Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 128
So they paid a hundred-weight of gold to the peasant, who, whatever he did, was not scolded but kissed.
Who acts: Englishmen, peasant · What happens: pay, do, not scold, kiss · To what, where: hundred weight
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, peasant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 paid | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paid | nsubj |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 weight | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weight | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hundred | punct |
| 7 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weight | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 peasant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasant | det |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whatever | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 whatever | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whatever | punct |
| 16 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 peasant | appos |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scolded | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 scolded | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 scolded | advmod |
| 22 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 kissed | cc |
| 24 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 scolded | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Englishmen = englishman | a hundred weight of gold | to the peasant | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Asset | |||
| 2 | do | past | peasant | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not scold | past · passive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | kiss | participle | vn marry-36.2 «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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