Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 228

But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humor--and he must be so to answer well--he must be treated quite like a man.”

Who acts: royal highness, Highness · What happens: permit, observe, be, pass off, treat · To what, where: me, Highness, proper humor

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 (royal highness, Highness), 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 permit	cc
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 highness	nmod:poss
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 highness	amod
4	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 permit	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 permit	aux
6	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 permit	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 observe	mark
9	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 permit	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proud	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 proud	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proud	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proud	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 proud	advmod
15	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 permit	parataxis
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 passing	mark
17	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 proud	advcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 passing	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 passing	compound:prt
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 man	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 humor	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 humor	mark
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 humor	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 humor	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 humor	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	33 humor	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 humor	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 humor	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 humor	det
32	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 humor	amod
33	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proud	conj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 answer	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 answer	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 answer	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 answer	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 answer	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 answer	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 answer	mark
41	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 permit	conj
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 answer	advmod
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 treated	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 treated	nsubj:pass
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 treated	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 treated	aux:pass
47	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 permit	conj
48	quite	quite	ADV	_	47 treated	advmod
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 man	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 man	det
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 treated	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 permit	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 permit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	permit	future	your royal highness	me			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	observe not said to happen	to-infinitive	your royal highness not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Highness			proud property	tree rules
4	pass off	gerund	Highness not said here	Highness		for a man	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Trajectory
5	is	present	Highness		a proper humor		tree rules
6	is	must	Highness			answer, well property	tree rules
7	treat	must · passive		Highness		like a man	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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