Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 89
We'll wager you a ton of coined gold, a hundred pounds to the hundred-weight."
Who acts: We · What happens: wager, coin · To what, where: you
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wager | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wager | aux |
| 3 | wager | wager | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wager | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ton | det |
| 6 | ton | ton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wager | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 8 | coined | coin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gold | amod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ton | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pounds | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pounds | nummod |
| 13 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ton | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 weight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 weight | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 weight | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 hundred | punct |
| 18 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wager | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wager | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wager | future | We | you | to the hundred weight | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ton=Asset | |||
| 2 | coin | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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