Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 130

That is a story which I heard when I was a child; and now you have heard it too, and know that "What the old man does is always right."

Who acts: That, I, you, old man · What happens: be, hear, know, do · To what, where: story, child · 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 (That, I, you, old man), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heard	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 story	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 child	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 child	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 child	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 heard	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 know	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 right	mark
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 What	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 right	nsubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 does	nsubj
30	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 What	acl:relcl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 right	cop
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 right	advmod
33	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 know	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a story			tree rules
2	hear	past	I	a story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	is a	past	I	a child			tree rules
4	hear	present · perfect	you	child	now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	do in a quote	present	the old man				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present				always, 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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