Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 14

But the little daughter of the merchant became very angry at this speech, for her father's name was Petersen, and she knew that the name ended in "sen," and therefore she said as proudly as she could, "But my papa can buy a hundred dollars' worth of bonbons, and give them away to children.

Who acts: little daughter, name, daughter, papa, father · What happens: become, be, know, end, say, buy · To what, where: sen, worth, names · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little daughter, name, daughter, papa), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 became	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 merchant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 speech	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 speech	det
13	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 angry	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Petersen	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	21 Petersen	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 name	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Petersen	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Petersen	cop
21	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 became	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 ended	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 name	det
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ended	nsubj
29	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 knew	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 sen	case
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 sen	punct
32	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ended	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sen	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 sen	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
36	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	38 said	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ended	conj
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 proudly	advmod
40	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	38 said	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 could	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 could	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 proudly	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 could	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 buy	punct
46	But	but	CCONJ	_	50 buy	cc
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 papa	nmod:poss
48	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 buy	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 buy	aux
50	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 could	parataxis
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 hundred	det
52	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 dollars	nummod
53	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 worth	nmod:poss
54	'	's	PART	_	53 dollars	case
55	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 buy	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 bonbons	case
57	bonbons	bonbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 worth	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 give	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 give	cc
60	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 buy	conj
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 give	iobj
62	away	away	ADV	_	60 give	advmod
63	to	to	ADP	_	64 children	case
64	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 give	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the little daughter of the merchant				angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	daughter's father's name				for Petersen	tree rules
3	know	past	daughter					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	end	past	the name			sen		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past	daughter				proudly, therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	buy in a quote	can	my papa	hundred dollars's worth of bonbons				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Theme
7	give away in a quote	infinitive	my papa not said here		names = name		to children; away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to child=Recipient
8	name		daughter's father					nom name «communication transitive»: 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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