Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 107

"Skins, skins," he cried again, "who'll buy skins?" but to all who inquired the price, his answer was, "a bushel of money."

Who acts: Skins, answer, bushel · What happens: cry, buy, inquire, be, answer · To what, where: skins, price, bushel · 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 (Skins, answer, bushel), 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	_	2 Skins	punct
2	Skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skins	punct
4	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Skins	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Skins	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buy	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 buy	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 buy	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 buy	aux
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
15	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buy	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 buy	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 buy	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 inquired	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 inquired	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 inquired	nsubj
22	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 price	det
24	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 inquired	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bushel	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 answer	nmod:poss
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bushel	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bushel	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bushel	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 bushel	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bushel	det
32	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 money	case
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bushel	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 bushel	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 bushel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Skins and skins		again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	buy in a quote	future		skins			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3	inquire speech: other	past		the price		to all	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	past	bushel's answer	a bushel		of money	tree rules
5	answer		bushel				nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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