Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 16
And she fastened his neckerchief for him; for she could do that better than he could, and she could also tie it very prettily in a double bow.
Who acts: wife · What happens: fasten, do, tie · To what, where: neckerchief, double bow
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 (wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fastened | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neckerchief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neckerchief | neckerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fastened | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | ADV | _ | 14 better | advmod |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 do | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tie | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tie | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tie | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tie | aux |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 tie | advmod |
| 23 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tie | obj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 prettily | advmod |
| 26 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 23 tie | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bow | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bow | det |
| 29 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bow | amod |
| 30 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tie | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | wife | horse's neckerchief | for horse | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neckerchief=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | could | wife | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tie | could | wife | neckerchief | a double bow | prettily property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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