Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 20
She always attends to her own serious business herself, as then she is sure of having it done properly.
Who acts: One, skin · What happens: attend, be, have, do · To what, where: skin
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 (One, skin), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 attends | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 attends | advmod |
| 3 | attends | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 business | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 business | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 business | amod |
| 7 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 business | amod |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attends | obl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 business | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 then | case |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sure | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attends | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 having | mark |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sure | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 having | obj |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 having | xcomp |
| 20 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 19 done | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | present | One | to One's own serious business One; always property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to business=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | One | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | One not said here | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | skin not said here | properly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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