Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 68

It was always property, my old woman said; and here she would see a great deal of property--a whole sackful; I should like to show them to her."

Who acts: tree, old woman, woman, I · What happens: be, say, see, like, show, deal · To what, where: property, great deal, apples, 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 (tree, old woman, woman, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 property	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 property	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 property	advmod
4	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 woman	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 property	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 see	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 property	case
20	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deal	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 sackful	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sackful	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sackful	amod
24	sackful	sackful	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deal	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 show	mark
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 like	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 show	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 show	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	tree	property			always property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	would	woman	a great deal of property and a whole sackful		here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
4	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	apples = apple	woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to she=Recipient
6	deal			property				nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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