Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 64
"Rotten apples," answered the ostler; "a whole sackful of them.
Who acts: Rotten apples · What happens: answer · To what, where: ostler
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 (Rotten apples), 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 | _ | 3 apples | punct |
| 2 | Rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apples | amod |
| 3 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 apples | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 apples | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ostler | det |
| 8 | ostler | ostler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sackful | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sackful | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sackful | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sackful | amod |
| 13 | sackful | sackful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sackful | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Rotten apples | the ostler | 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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