Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 106
"Are you mad?" they all cried; "do you think we have money to spend by the bushel?"
Who acts: you, shoemakers, we, money · What happens: be, cry, think, have, spend · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shoemakers, we, money), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mad | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 cried | advmod |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mad | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mad | parataxis |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | ccomp |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 spend | mark |
| 19 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 bushel | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bushel | det |
| 22 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spend | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | shoemakers = shoemaker | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | we | money | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spend in a quote | to-infinitive | money not said here | by the bushel | vn consume-66-1 «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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