Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 74

“The poor watchman out there in the street is far happier than I. He knows not what I term privation.

Who acts: poor watchman, watchman, poet · What happens: be, not know, privation

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 (poor watchman, watchman, poet), 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	_	12 happier	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 watchman	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watchman	amod
4	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 happier	nsubj
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 watchman	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watchman	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 happier	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 happier	advmod
12	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 I.	case
14	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 happier	obl
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knows	nsubj
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 happier	conj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 knows	advmod
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 knows	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 privation	nsubj
20	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 privation	compound
21	privation	privation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 what	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 happier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the poor watchman in the street	than I.; far, happy property	tree rules
2	not know in a quote	present	watchman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	privation in a quote		the poet = poet		tree rules

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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