--- title: It is fair-day to-day; so ride into town, and get rid of the horse f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is fair-day to-day; so ride into town, and get rid of the horse for money, or make a good exchange; whichever you do will be right to me, so ride to the fair." Who acts: article, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (article, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:132:15 # text = It is fair-day to-day; so ride into town, and get rid of the horse for money, or make a good exchange; whichever you do will be right to me, so ride to the fair." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 ride ride VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 whichever whichever ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 ride ride VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | article | fair day | | | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **ride** | infinitive | | | | town | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | | | | | | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | | a good exchange | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exchange=Product | | 5 | **do** | present | you | | | | | whichever *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | future | | | me | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **ride** | infinitive | | | | the fair | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to fair=Trajectory | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/16/) - ↑ back to [What the Old Man Does Is Always Right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/)