Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 82

And then he told them the whole story of the horse, which he had exchanged for a cow, and all the rest of it, down to the apples.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: tell, exchange · To what, where: whole story, -s · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 exchanged	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 exchanged	nsubj:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 exchanged	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 exchanged	aux
16	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 story	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 cow	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cow	det
19	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exchanged	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rest	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rest	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 rest	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rest	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 down	punct
28	down	down	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 apples	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 apples	det
31	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 down	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	peasant	the whole story of the horse	-s = -		then	down property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
2	exchange	past · perfect · passive		the whole story of the horse				for a cow	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for cow=Co-Theme

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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