Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 47
We have paid every year our toll of a feather, an egg, and a young one, as it is only right we should do.
Who acts: egg, we, our · What happens: pay, be, do, toll · To what, where: We, feather
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg, we, our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | aux |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 toll | nmod:poss |
| 7 | toll | toll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feather | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feather | det |
| 10 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toll | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 egg | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toll | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 one | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toll | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 right | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 right | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 right | advmod |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 do | advcl |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · perfect · passive | We | year | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient toll=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | egg | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | should | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | toll | our | a feather | nom toll «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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