Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 17
Those few dollars he can earn a hundred times over, and most likely he'll get a rich wife into the bargain.
Who acts: few dollars, George · What happens: earn, get · To what, where: rich wife, bargain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few dollars, George), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 dollars | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dollars | amod |
| 3 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 earn | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 earn | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 earn | aux |
| 6 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hundred | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 earn | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 earn | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 likely | advmod |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 earn | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wife | amod |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bargain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bargain | det |
| 23 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | can | that few dollars | time | over property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | future | George | a rich wife | the bargain | likely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=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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