Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 15

It is fair-day to-day; so ride into town, and get rid of the horse for money, or make a good exchange; whichever you do will be right to me, so ride to the fair."

Who acts: article, you · What happens: be, ride, get, make, do · To what, where: fair day, town, good exchange, me, fair

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 (article, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 day	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ride	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 ride	advmod
11	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 day	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 town	case
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 ride	conj
17	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 get	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 horse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rid	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 money	case
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horse	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
25	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 get	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 exchange	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 exchange	amod
28	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
30	whichever	whichever	ADV	PronType=Int	32 do	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
32	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 get	conj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 right	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 right	cop
35	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 do	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 right	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ride	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 ride	advmod
40	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 get	parataxis
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 fair	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fair	det
43	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ride	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	article	fair day			day		tree rules
2	ride	infinitive				town			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory
3	get	infinitive						rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	infinitive		a good exchange					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exchange=Product
5	do	present	you					whichever property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	future			me			right property	tree rules
7	ride	infinitive				the fair			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to fair=Trajectory

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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