Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 31
But, having made up his mind to go to the fair, he determined to do so, if only to have a look at it; so on he went to the town with his cow.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: make up, go, determine, do, have, mind · To what, where: mind, fair, look, town
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mind | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fair | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fair | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 determined | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 determined | nsubj |
| 15 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 have | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 do | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 look | det |
| 25 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 look | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 32 went | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 determined | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 town | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 town | det |
| 35 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 cow | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 cow | nmod:poss |
| 38 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | gerund · perfect | peasant's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | peasant's mind not said here | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | peasant | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | a look | look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | |||
| 6 | go | past | peasant | the town | with peasant's cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | mind | peasant | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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