Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 4

They even could have afforded to keep two horses, but it was a saying among the farmers in those parts, "The horse eats himself up;" that is to say, he eats as much as he earns.

Who acts: people, it, horse, that, pig · What happens: afford, keep, be, eat up, eat, earn · To what, where: two horses, saying, pig, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, it, horse, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afforded	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	5 afforded	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 afforded	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 afforded	aux
5	afforded	afford	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 afforded	advcl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 horses	nummod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 saying	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saying	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 saying	det
15	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 afforded	obl
16	among	among	ADP	_	18 farmers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 farmers	det
18	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saying	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 parts	case
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 parts	det
21	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 farmers	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eats	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 eats	punct
24	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eats	nsubj
26	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 eats	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 eats	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 say	nsubj:outer
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 say	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 say	mark
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 eats	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eats	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eats	nsubj
37	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 say	parataxis
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eats	obj
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 earns	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 earns	nsubj
42	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 much	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 afforded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	afford	could · perfect	people			tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	people not said here	two horses		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	is a	past	it	a saying	among the farmers in that parts	tree rules
4	eat up in a quote	present	the horse	pig		tree rules
5	is	present	that		say property	tree rules
6	eat	present	pig	much		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
7	earn	present	pig			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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