Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 13

Each has its own value," said the wagon; "we cannot all be noblemen; there must be some to do the work."

Who acts: Each, own value, we, game · What happens: have, say, not be, do, value · To what, where: own value, wagon, noblemen, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, own value, we, game), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 value	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 value	amod
5	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 value	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wagon	det
10	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 noblemen	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 noblemen	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 noblemen	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 noblemen	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 noblemen	advmod
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 noblemen	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 noblemen	cop
18	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 be	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 be	expl
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 some	cop
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 has	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 some	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 work	det
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Each	game's own value		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	game's own value not said here	the wagon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wagon=Topic
3	not is a	can	we	noblemen	all property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive		the work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	value		game			nom value «cognition 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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