Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 23

His parents at home had not even a penny to spare to buy a newspaper, much less could they write in one; and worse than all, his father's name, and of course his own, ended in "sen," and therefore he could never turn out well, which was a very sad thought.

Who acts: parents, boy, father · What happens: have, spare, buy, write, end, not turn out · To what, where: penny, newspaper, sen, sad thought

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 (parents, boy, father), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parents	nmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 penny	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 penny	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 penny	det
9	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 spare	mark
11	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 penny	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 buy	mark
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 spare	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 newspaper	det
15	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 write	punct
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 less	advmod
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 write	advmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 write	aux
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 write	nsubj
21	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 buy	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 write	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 worse	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 worse	cc
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 had	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 worse	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 name	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 name	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 father	case
33	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 worse	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ended	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ended	cc
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 own	case
37	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 of	fixed
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 own	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 ended	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 own	punct
41	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 sen	case
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 sen	punct
44	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ended	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sen	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 sen	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 turn	cc
48	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	52 turn	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 turn	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 turn	aux
51	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	52 turn	advmod
52	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ended	conj
53	out	out	ADP	_	52 turn	compound:prt
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 turn	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 thought	punct
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 thought	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 thought	cop
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 thought	det
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 sad	advmod
60	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 thought	amod
61	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 turn	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy's parents at home	a penny			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient
2	spare	to-infinitive	boy's parents at home not said here	a penny not said here			tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	boy's parents at home not said here	a newspaper			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme
4	write	could	parents = parent			in one; less property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination
5	end	past			sen	of boy's own	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	not turn out	could	boy			therefore, well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past		a sad thought			tree rules
8	name		boy'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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