Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 23

But the riding-whip said he never cracked for old people, only for the young who were not yet married. "

Who acts: riding whip, play · What happens: say, not crack, not marry · To what, where: young · 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 (riding whip, play), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whip	det
3	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whip	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 riding	punct
5	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cracked	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 cracked	advmod
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cracked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 young	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 young	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 young	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 young	det
17	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 people	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 married	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 married	aux:pass
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 married	advmod
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 married	advmod
22	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 young	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the riding whip				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not crack	past	play			for old people and the young	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	not marry	past · passive		the young	yet		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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