Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 31

But this penny did not go to the baker's shop, but into the savings-box; and soon there were so many pennies in the savings-box that he could buy a paint-box and color the drawings he made, and he had a great number of drawings.

Who acts: penny, drawings · What happens: not go, be, buy, make, have · To what, where: savings box, shop, many pennies, savings, paint box, color

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (penny, drawings), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 penny	det
3	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 shop	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 baker	det
9	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shop	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 baker	case
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 box	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 box	cc
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 savings	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 savings	det
16	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 box	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 savings	punct
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 pennies	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 were	cc
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 were	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pennies	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pennies	amod
26	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 savings	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 savings	det
29	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 pennies	nmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 box	punct
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 savings	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 buy	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 buy	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 buy	aux
35	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 box	acl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 box	det
37	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 box	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 paint	punct
39	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 buy	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 color	cc
41	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 box	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 drawings	det
43	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 made	nsubj
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	nsubj
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 color	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 had	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 had	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	parataxis
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 number	det
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 number	amod
52	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 drawings	case
54	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 number	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not go	past · do-support	this penny	savings box	the baker's shop	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
2	is a	past		many pennies	the savings and box	tree rules
3	buy	could	penny	a paint box and color		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
4	make	past	the drawings	color not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset color=Product
5	have	past	penny	a great number of drawings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient

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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