Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 55
I think it would be a good exchange if I could get it for my goose.
Who acts: I, exchange · What happens: think, be, get · To what, where: good exchange, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, exchange), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exchange | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 exchange | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exchange | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 exchange | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exchange | amod |
| 8 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | ccomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exchange | acl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 goose | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 goose | nmod:poss |
| 16 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | would | exchange | a good exchange | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | I | exchange | for my goose | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for goose=Beneficiary |
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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