Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 90
"No; a bushel will be enough," replied the peasant. "
Who acts: bushel, peasant · What happens: be, reply · 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 (bushel, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 enough | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 enough | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bushel | det |
| 5 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enough | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 enough | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enough | cop |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 enough | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 enough | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 enough | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasant | det |
| 13 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enough | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | a bushel | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the peasant | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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