Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 17

Nobody could be more steady or quiet than this young man; we therefore wish him joy of the excursion with all our heart; and it will certainly be beneficial for a person who leads so sedentary a life.

Who acts: Nobody, we, joy, person · What happens: be, wish, lead, joy · To what, where: joy, Tis, life, excursion

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, we, joy, person), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 steady	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 steady	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 steady	cop
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 steady	amod
5	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 quiet	cc
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steady	conj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quiet	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wish	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wish	nsubj
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	15 wish	advmod
15	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 steady	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wish	iobj
17	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wish	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 excursion	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 excursion	det
20	excursion	excursion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 joy	nmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 heart	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 heart	det:predet
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 excursion	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 beneficial	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beneficial	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beneficial	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 beneficial	aux
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 beneficial	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 beneficial	cop
31	beneficial	beneficial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steady	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 person	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 person	det
34	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beneficial	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 leads	nsubj
36	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 person	acl:relcl
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 sedentary	advmod
38	sedentary	sedentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 leads	xcomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 life	det
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leads	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 steady	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	could	Nobody			steady property	tree rules
2	be		Nobody not said here			than this young man	tree rules
3	wish	present	we	joy of the excursion with our heart	Tis	therefore property	tree rules
4	is	future	joy			for a person; beneficial, certainly property	tree rules
5	lead	present	a person	a life		sedentary property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
6	joy			the excursion with our heart			nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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