Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 114

“Let no one deem himself happy before his end,” were the words of Solon; and here was a new and brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm.

Who acts: you, one · What happens: let, deem, be · To what, where: one, voice, words, new proof · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, one), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
5	deem	deem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 deem	obj
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deem	xcomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 end	nmod:poss
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 words	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Let	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Solon	case
17	Solon	Solon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 words	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 proof	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 here	cc
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 proof	advmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 proof	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 proof	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 proof	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brilliant	cc
25	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 new	conj
26	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 wisdom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wisdom	det
29	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proof	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 apothegm	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 apothegm	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 apothegm	amod
33	apothegm	apothegm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wisdom	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	no one			tree rules
2	deem in a quote	infinitive	no one not said here	voice		happy property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute
3	is a	past		the words		of Solon	tree rules
4	is a	past		a new proof	here	of the wisdom of the old apothegm	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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