Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 129
Yes, it always pays best when the wife sees and maintains that her husband knows best, and whatever he does is right.
Who acts: weight, wife, husband · What happens: pay, see, maintain, know, be
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 (weight, wife, husband), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 pays | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pays | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 pays | advmod |
| 5 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 pays | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 sees | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | nsubj |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pays | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 maintains | cc |
| 12 | maintains | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sees | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 knows | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 maintains | advcl |
| 17 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 knows | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 right | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 right | cc |
| 20 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 does | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 does | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | aux |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pays | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | weight | always, well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | present | the wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | maintain | present | the wife not said here | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | present | wife's husband | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present · do-support | weight not said here | right 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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