Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 91

I can only set a bushel of apples against it, and I'll throw myself and my old woman into the bargain; that will pile up the measure, I fancy."

Who acts: I, that · What happens: set, throw, pile up, fancy · To what, where: bushel, myself, bargain, measure

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 (I, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bushel	det
6	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 apples	case
8	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bushel	nmod
9	against	against	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 apples	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throw	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 throw	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 throw	aux
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 throw	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 woman	cc
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 woman	nmod:poss
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 myself	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 bargain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bargain	det
23	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pile	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 pile	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 pile	aux
27	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 pile	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 measure	det
30	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pile	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fancy	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 fancy	nsubj
33	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 pile	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	can	I	a bushel of apples against bushel		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bushel=Result
2	throw	future	I	myself	into the bargain result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer myself=Theme into bargain=Result
3	pile up	future	that	the measure		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme measure=Destination
4	fancy	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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