Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 40
The rich baker shall have it,--he can bear the loss better than I can.
Who acts: rich baker, baker · What happens: have, bear · To what, where: shilling, loss
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich baker, baker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11487): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 baker | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baker | amod |
| 3 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bear | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 bear | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bear | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bear | aux |
| 11 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loss | det |
| 13 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bear | obj |
| 14 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 bear | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 can | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 can | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | the rich baker | shilling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | can | baker | the loss | well property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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