Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 25

No, friend, you should but try what it is to sit from one year's end to the other occupied with and judging the most trivial matters.”

Who acts: you, friend · What happens: try, be, judge · To what, where: end, trivial matters

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 (you, friend), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 friend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 try	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 try	aux
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 sit	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sit	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sit	mark
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	18 end	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 year	nummod
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 year	case
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 occupied	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 occupied	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 occupied	amod
22	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sit	obl
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	25 judging	mark
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 judging	cc
25	judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 occupied	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matters	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 trivial	advmod
28	trivial	trivial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 matters	amod
29	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 judging	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	should	you			friend vocative	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	is not said to happen	present	friend		from one year's end	to the other occupied; sit property	tree rules
3	judge	gerund	friend not said here	the trivial matters			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent matter=Value

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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