Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 66
"Why that will be terrible waste," he replied; "I should like to take them home to my old woman.
Who acts: that, ostler · What happens: be, reply, like, take · To what, where: terrible waste, apples, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, ostler), 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 | _ | 7 waste | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 waste | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 waste | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 waste | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 waste | cop |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waste | amod |
| 7 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waste | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 woman | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 woman | nmod:poss |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woman | amod |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | that | terrible waste | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | ostler | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | ostler | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | ostler not said here | apples = apple | my old woman | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to woman=Destination |
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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