Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 61
Besides this the managers bring up the fish from the boats, cut them open, prepare them, and have generally a great deal to do.
Who acts: managers · What happens: bring up, cut, open, prepare, have, do · To what, where: fish, boats, fishermen, great deal
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (managers), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 managers | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 managers | det |
| 4 | managers | manager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 bring | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 boats | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boats | det |
| 11 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | obj |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cut | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prepare | punct |
| 17 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prepare | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | conj |
| 22 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 25 deal | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 deal | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 deal | amod |
| 25 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 deal | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | present | the managers | the fish | the boats | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | |||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | fishermen = fisherman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | prepare | infinitive | fishermen = fisherman | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have | present | the managers not said here | a great deal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | the managers not said here | a great deal not said here | 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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