Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 87

Why, she will kiss me, and say, 'what the old man does is always right.'"

Who acts: woman, old man · What happens: kiss, say, do, be · To what, where: me · 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 (woman, old man), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 kiss	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kiss	aux
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kiss	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 does	nsubj
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 right	advmod
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kiss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	future	woman	me		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the old man			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			always, right property	tree rules

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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