Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 35

Good gracious, what a quantity of gold there was! enough to buy all the sugar-sticks of the sweet-stuff women; all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the world, or even the whole town itself There was, indeed, an immense quantity.

What happens: buy, be · To what, where: sugar sticks, gracious immense quantity

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gracious	amod
2	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 quantity	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gracious	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quantity	det
6	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quantity	nmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 gracious	punct
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 gracious	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 buy	mark
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gracious	advcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sticks	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sticks	det
17	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sticks	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sugar	punct
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buy	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 women	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 women	det
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stuff	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 sweet	punct
24	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 women	compound
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sticks	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 soldiers	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 soldiers	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 soldiers	det
29	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 soldiers	compound
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gracious	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 whips	punct
32	whips	whip	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 soldiers	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 horses	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 horses	cc
35	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 horses	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 rocking	punct
37	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 soldiers	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 horses	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 was	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 was	cc
43	even	even	ADV	_	46 town	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 town	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 town	amod
46	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 was	nsubj
47	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	46 town	nmod:unmarked
48	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 was	expl
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 quantity	cop
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 indeed	punct
51	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	49 was	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 quantity	punct
53	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 quantity	det
54	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 quantity	amod
55	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 quantity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		all sugar sticks of the stuff women					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	is a	past		a gracious immense quantity					tree rules

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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