Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 36
This man also had a stout, useful substitute behind him, who did duty for him, and performed all his dirty work.
Who acts: man, useful substitute · What happens: have, do, perform, work · To what, where: stout, duty, dirty work
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, useful substitute), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stout | det |
| 6 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 substitute | punct |
| 8 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 substitute | amod |
| 9 | substitute | substitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stout | appos |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 substitute | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 substitute | parataxis |
| 15 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 performed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 performed | cc |
| 20 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 work | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 work | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 work | amod |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this man | a stout | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stout=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | past | useful substitute behind substitute | duty | for man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | perform | past | this man not said here | man's dirty work | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | man | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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