Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 83
"Well, your old woman will give it you well when you get home," said one of the Englishmen. "
Who acts: old woman, you, one · What happens: give, get, say · To what, where: story, you · 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 (old woman, you, one), 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 | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 woman | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 give | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 get | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Englishmen | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Englishmen | det |
| 22 | Englishmen | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | your old woman | story | you | well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme | ||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | you | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one of the Englishmen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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