Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 5

*As on the continent, in all law and police practices nothing is verbal, but any circumstance, however trifling, is reduced to writing, the labor, as well as the number of papers that thus accumulate, is enormous.

Who acts: nothing, continent · What happens: be, trifle, reduce, accumulate · To what, where: law, circumstance, writing, papers

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 (nothing, continent), 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	_	5 continent	punct
2	As	as	ADV	_	5 continent	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 continent	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 continent	det
5	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 enormous	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 law	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 law	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 law	det
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continent	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 practices	cc
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 practices	compound
12	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 law	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 verbal	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 verbal	cop
15	verbal	verbal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 law	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reduced	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 reduced	cc
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 circumstance	det
19	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reduced	nsubj:pass
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trifling	punct
21	however	however	ADV	_	22 trifling	advmod
22	trifling	trifle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 circumstance	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 circumstance	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 reduced	aux:pass
25	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 continent	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 writing	case
27	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reduced	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 labor	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 labor	det
30	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 writing	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 number	punct
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	36 number	cc
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	as	as	ADP	_	32 as	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 number	det
36	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 writing	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 papers	case
38	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 number	nmod
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 accumulate	obj
40	thus	thus	ADV	_	41 accumulate	advmod
41	accumulate	accumulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 papers	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 continent	punct
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 enormous	cop
44	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 enormous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	nothing	all law and police practices not said here	verbal property	tree rules
2	trifle	gerund			however property	vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	reduce	present · passive	the continent in all law and police practices not said here	any circumstance	to writing and the labor as the number of papers goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to writing=Goal
4	accumulate	present		papers	thus property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	is	present	the continent in all law and police practices		enormous property	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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