Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 95
She certainly only got half a guilder for that, whereas the hind legs were paid for with a whole guilder; but then she had to walk bent, and to do without fresh air. "
Who acts: aunt · What happens: get, pay, have, walk, do · To what, where: guilder, hind legs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 guilder | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guilder | det |
| 7 | guilder | guilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paid | punct |
| 11 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 16 paid | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 legs | det |
| 13 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 legs | amod |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 paid | aux:pass |
| 16 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 guilder | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 guilder | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 guilder | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 guilder | amod |
| 21 | guilder | guilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paid | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 had | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 walk | mark |
| 28 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | bent | bent | ADV | _ | 28 walk | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 do | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | conj |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 air | case |
| 35 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 air | amod |
| 36 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 do | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | aunt | half guilder | for that; certainly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent guilder=Theme for that=Source | |||
| 2 | pay | past · passive | the hind legs | for a whole guilder | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for guilder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | aunt | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | to-infinitive | aunt not said here | bent property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | aunt not said here | without fresh air | vn act-114-1 «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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