Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 59

Now he had really done a great deal of business on his way to the fair, and he was hot and tired.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: do, be, deal · To what, where: great deal, way, business

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 (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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 done	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 business	case
10	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fair	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fair	det
16	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hot	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hot	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hot	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hot	cop
21	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 done	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tired	cc
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hot	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	peasant	a great deal of business	peasant's way to the fair	now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality
2	is	past	peasant				hot property	tree rules
3	be		peasant not said here					tree rules
4	deal			business	peasant's way to the fair			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient on=place

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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