Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 18
Then he rode away upon the horse that was to be sold or bartered for something else.
Who acts: horse · What happens: ride away, sell, barter · To what, where: horse
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 (horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sold | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sold | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sold | aux:pass |
| 12 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 horse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 bartered | cc |
| 14 | bartered | barter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sold | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 something | case |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 bartered | obl |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 something | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | horse | then | upon the horse; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sell | past · passive | horse not said here | the horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | barter | participle | horse not said here | for something | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent for something=Co-Theme |
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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