Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 10

Certainly; there are ten loads of firewood in each,' observed the other: 'it will be a hard winter, and last year we got fourteen dollars a load'--and they were gone. '

Who acts: firewood, we, loads · What happens: observe, be, get · To what, where: other, hard winter, fourteen dollars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firewood, we, loads), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 are	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Certainly	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 gone	cop
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 loads	nummod
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 firewood	case
8	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loads	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 firewood	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 observed	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 observed	punct
13	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 are	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 observed	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 winter	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 winter	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 winter	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 winter	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 winter	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 winter	det
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 winter	amod
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 observed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 got	cc
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 year	amod
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obl:unmarked
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
29	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 observed	conj
30	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 dollars	nummod
31	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 got	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 load	det
33	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dollars	nmod:unmarked
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 dollars	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 gone	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gone	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gone	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 gone	cop
39	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 gone	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past		the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic
2	is a	future	firewood	a hard winter			tree rules
3	get	past	we	fourteen dollars a load	year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dollar=Stimulus
4	is	present	loads = load			gone property	tree rules

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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