Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 116

“Modestia is a fine virtue,” continued the gentleman; “however, as to your speech, I must say mihi secus videtur: yet I am willing to suspend my judicium.”

Who acts: Modestia, fine virtue, Councillor, your · What happens: be, continue, say, suspend, speak · To what, where: fine virtue, gentleman, mihi secus videtur, judicium · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Modestia, fine virtue, Councillor, your), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 virtue	punct
2	Modestia	Modestia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 virtue	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 virtue	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 virtue	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 virtue	amod
6	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 virtue	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 virtue	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gentleman	det
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
14	however	however	ADV	_	23 say	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 however	punct
16	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 speech	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 speech	nmod:poss
19	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speech	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 continued	conj
24	mihi	mihi	X	_	26 videtur	compound
25	secus	secus	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 videtur	compound
26	videtur	videtur	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 willing	punct
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	31 willing	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 willing	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 willing	cop
31	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 continued	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 suspend	mark
33	suspend	suspend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 willing	xcomp
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 judicium	nmod:poss
35	judicium	judicium	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 suspend	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 willing	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Modestia	a fine virtue		tree rules
2	continue	past	a fine virtue	the gentleman		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	must	the Councillor = councillor	mihi secus videtur	as your speech; however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent videtur=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	the Councillor = councillor		willing property	tree rules
5	suspend in a quote	to-infinitive	the Councillor = councillor not said here	my judicium		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judicium=Theme
6	speak in a quote		your			nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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