Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 99
"I got a cow in exchange for the horse."
Who acts: woman · What happens: get · To what, where: cow, exchange
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), 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 | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 exchange | case |
| 7 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cow | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exchange | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | the woman = woman | a cow | exchange for the horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
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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