Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 179

The learned man was not at all in the most enviable state; grief and torment followed him, and what he said about the true, and the good, and the beautiful, was, to most persons, like roses for a cow!

Who acts: learned man, man · What happens: learn, follow, say, be · To what, where: thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, man), 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	3 man	det
2	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 followed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 all	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 all	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 man	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 state	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 state	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 enviable	advmod
11	enviable	enviable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 state	amod
12	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grief	punct
14	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 followed	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 torment	cc
16	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grief	conj
17	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 followed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 followed	parataxis
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 true	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 true	det
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 good	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 good	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 good	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beautiful	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 beautiful	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 beautiful	det
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 good	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 persons	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 persons	cop
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 persons	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 persons	case
39	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 persons	amod
40	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 followed	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 roses	punct
42	like	like	ADP	_	43 roses	case
43	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 persons	conj
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 cow	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 cow	det
46	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 roses	nmod
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	past	the learned man at all	thing		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			to most persons and roses for a cow	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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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