Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 65
They will do to feed the pigs with."
Who acts: apples · What happens: do, feed · To what, where: pigs
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 feed | mark |
| 5 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pigs | det |
| 7 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feed | iobj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 feed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | apples = apple | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feed | to-infinitive | apples = apple not said here | the pigs | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient |
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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