Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 19

The rocking-horse spoke of training and races; the wagon of railways and steam power, for these subjects belonged to each of their professions, and it was right they should talk of them.

Who acts: rocking horse, subjects, it · What happens: speak, belong, be, talk · To what, where: wagon · 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 (rocking horse, subjects, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 rocking	punct
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 training	case
7	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 races	cc
9	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 training	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 wagon	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wagon	det
12	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 railways	case
14	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wagon	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 power	cc
16	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 power	compound
17	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 railways	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 belonged	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 belonged	mark
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 subjects	det
21	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 belonged	nsubj
22	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 each	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 belonged	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 professions	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 professions	nmod:poss
27	professions	profession	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 each	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 right	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 right	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 right	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 right	cop
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 belonged	conj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 talk	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 talk	aux
35	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 right	ccomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 talk	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the rocking horse	the wagon of railways and steam power	of training and races	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	belong	past	this subjects		to each	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	it		right property	tree rules
4	talk	should	subjects = subject		of professions = profession	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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