Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 68
But no man in his senses ever thinks of printing them.
Who acts: man · What happens: think, print · To what, where: senses
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 thinks | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 senses | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 senses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 thinks | advmod |
| 8 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 printing | mark |
| 10 | printing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thinks | advcl | |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 printing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | no man in man's senses | ever | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gerund | no man in man's senses not said here | senses = sens | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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