Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 21

Then he put it on the butter tub and the cash box, and they all expressed the same opinion as the waste-paper tub; and a majority must always be respected.

Who acts: goblin, newspapers · What happens: put, express, respect · To what, where: tongue, butter tub, same opinion, majority

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin, newspapers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 tub	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tub	det
7	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tub	compound
8	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 box	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
11	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 box	compound
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tub	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 expressed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 expressed	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 expressed	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 expressed	advmod
17	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 opinion	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 opinion	amod
20	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 expressed	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	26 tub	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tub	det
23	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paper	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 waste	punct
25	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tub	compound
26	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 expressed	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 respected	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 respected	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 majority	det
30	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 respected	nsubj:pass
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 respected	aux
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 respected	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 respected	aux:pass
34	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 put	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	goblin	tongue	the butter tub and the cash box	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tub=Destination
2	express	past	newspapers = newspaper	the same opinion			as the paper tub	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme
3	respect	must · passive		a majority			always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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