Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 15
He might have made a great deal of money as guide.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: make, deal · To what, where: great deal, money
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 guide | case |
| 11 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | might · perfect | Rudy | a great deal of money | as guide | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Product | |||
| 2 | deal | money | as guide | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
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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