Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 124

“I like reading all useful works; but I do not on that account despise the modern ones; 'tis only the unfortunate 'Tales of Every-day Life' that I cannot bear--we have enough and more than enough such in reality.”

Who acts: Councillor, account, tis, day Life · What happens: like, read, despise, not bear, have, tell · To what, where: useful works, modern ones, unfortunate Tales, enough · 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 (Councillor, account, tis, day Life), 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	_	3 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 like	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 works	det
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 works	amod
7	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reading	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 despise	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 account	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 account	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 account	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 account	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 account	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 account	det
15	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 despise	nsubj
16	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ones	det
18	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 despise	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 tis	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 tis	punct
22	tis	ti	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 have	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	27 Tales	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Tales	det
25	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Tales	amod
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 Tales	punct
27	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tis	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 Life	case
29	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 day	det
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Every	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Life	compound
32	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Tales	nmod
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 Tales	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 bear	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 bear	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 bear	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 bear	advmod
38	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Tales	acl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 have	nsubj
41	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	parataxis
42	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 have	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 more	cc
44	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 enough	conj
45	than	than	ADP	_	49 reality	case
46	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 reality	amod
47	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	49 reality	case
48	in	in	ADP	_	47 such	fixed
49	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 more	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	the Councillor = councillor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	read not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	the Councillor = councillor not said here	all useful works	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
3	despise in a quote	present	that account	the modern ones	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	not bear in a quote	can	the Councillor = councillor	the unfortunate Tales of day Life not said here	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient
5	have in a quote	present	tis the unfortunate Tales of day Life	enough	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
6	tell in a quote		day Life		nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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