Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 30

Accordingly the exchange was made; and as the matter was settled, the peasant might have turned back; for he had done the business he came to do.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: make, settle, turn back, do, come · To what, where: exchange, matter, peasant, business

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 (peasant), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 exchange	det
3	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 settled	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settled	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 settled	aux:pass
12	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 turned	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 settled	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	nsubj:pass
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	aux
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 made	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 done	case
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 turned	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 business	det
26	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 business	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 came	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the exchange	accordingly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	settle	past · passive		the matter		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
3	turn back	might · perfect · passive		the peasant		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	peasant	the business		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality
5	come	past	peasant	the business not said here		tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	peasant not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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