Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 11
It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing--come, let us be men.”
Who acts: education, taste · What happens: be, have, come, let · To what, where: great fault, taste, us, men
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (education, taste), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fault | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fault | amod |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fault | acl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 taste | det |
| 9 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 witty | mark |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 witty | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 witty | cop |
| 13 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 taste | acl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 amusing | cc |
| 15 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witty | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | parataxis |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 men | cop |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 let | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | education | a great fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | no taste | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | no taste | witty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | no taste not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | infinitive | men | 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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