Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 42

That would be very useful to my old woman; she could make all sorts of profits out of it.

Who acts: That, woman · What happens: be, make, sort · To what, where: sorts, creature, profits

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 (That, woman), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 useful	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 useful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 useful	advmod
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 woman	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 useful	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sorts	det
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 profits	case
17	profits	profit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sorts	nmod
18	out	out	ADP	_	20 it	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	That			to my old woman; useful property	tree rules
2	make	could	woman	all sorts of profits	creature		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Product
3	sort			profits			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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