Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 57
"Exchange," repeated the man; "well, it would not be a bad thing."
Who acts: Exchange · What happens: repeat, not be · To what, where: man, bad thing
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Exchange | punct |
| 2 | Exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Exchange | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Exchange | punct |
| 5 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repeated | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 10 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 18 thing | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 thing | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repeated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Exchange | the man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | would | exchange | a bad thing | tree rules |
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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