Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 38
The man with the sheep was quite ready, and the bargain was quickly made.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, make · To what, where: bargain
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 (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sheep | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sheep | det |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 ready | advmod |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bargain | det |
| 12 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ready | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man with the sheep | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the bargain | quickly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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