Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 7

They carved shoes and spoons, which paid well; therefore no one could justly call Jeppe Jans and his family poor people.

Who acts: shoes, one, Jeppe · What happens: carve, pay, call, people · To what, where: shoes · 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 (shoes, one, Jeppe), 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	2 carved	nsubj
2	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carved	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spoons	cc
5	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoes	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 paid	nsubj
8	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shoes	conj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 paid	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 call	punct
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 call	advmod
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 call	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 call	aux
15	justly	justly	ADV	_	16 call	advmod
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carved	parataxis
17	Jeppe	Jeppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 people	nsubj
18	Jans	Jan	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 Jeppe	flat
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 family	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 family	nmod:poss
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Jeppe	conj
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 call	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carve	past	shoes = shoe	shoes and spoons		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	pay	past	shoes and spoons		well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	call speech: assert	could	no one		justly, therefore property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	people		Jeppe and Jeppe's family			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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