Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 47
The other had not the least objection, and accordingly the exchange was made, and our peasant became possessor of the goose.
Who acts: other, peasant · What happens: have, make, become · To what, where: least objection, exchange, possessor
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 (other, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 objection | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 objection | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 objection | amod |
| 7 | objection | objection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 10 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 exchange | det |
| 12 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 peasant | nmod:poss |
| 18 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 20 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 goose | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 goose | det |
| 23 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possessor | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the other | the least objection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the exchange | accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | become | past | our peasant | possessor of the goose | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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