Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 58
And so they made an exchange,--the toll-keeper at the turnpike-gate kept the goose, and the peasant carried off the fowl.
Who acts: feathers, exchange, peasant · What happens: make, keep, carry off · To what, where: goose, fowl
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 (feathers, exchange, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 exchange | det |
| 6 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeper | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeper | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 keeper | det |
| 10 | toll | toll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeper | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 toll | punct |
| 12 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exchange | appos |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 15 | turnpike | turnpike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gate | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 turnpike | punct |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeper | nmod |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goose | det |
| 20 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carried | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carried | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 peasant | det |
| 24 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | nsubj |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 fowl | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fowl | det |
| 28 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | feathers = feather | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | a exchange | the goose | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | the peasant | the fowl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme |
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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