Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 30
He was the very pedlar they had made fun of and poured beer into a stocking for him to drink; but honesty and industry bring one forward, and now the pedlar was the possessor of the baronial estate.
Who acts: seat, branches, honesty, pedlar · What happens: be, make, pour, drink, bring · To what, where: pedlar, beer, stocking, one, possessor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seat, branches, honesty, pedlar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pedlar | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pedlar | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pedlar | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pedlar | advmod |
| 5 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 pedlar | acl:relcl |
| 9 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 of | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 poured | cc |
| 12 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 13 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 stocking | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stocking | det |
| 16 | stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | obl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 drink | mark |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drink | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 drink | mark |
| 20 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 poured | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 23 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 industry | cc |
| 25 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 honesty | conj |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pedlar | parataxis |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 possessor | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 possessor | cc |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 pedlar | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pedlar | det |
| 33 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 possessor | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 possessor | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 possessor | det |
| 36 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 estate | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 estate | det |
| 39 | baronial | baronial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 estate | amod |
| 40 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 possessor | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pedlar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | seat | the pedlar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | branches = branch | the pedlar not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pedlar=Product | ||||
| 3 | pour | past | branches = branch not said here | beer | a stocking | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent beer=Theme into stocking=Destination | |||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | seat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | honesty and industry | one | forward property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 6 | is a | past | the pedlar | the possessor | of the baronial estate | tree rules |
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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