Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 18
You are of a poetical nature, as it is called--I, on the contrary, possess profound knowledge and inexhaustible wit.
Who acts: You, contrary · What happens: be, call, possess · To what, where: nature, profound knowledge · 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, contrary), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 nature | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nature | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nature | det |
| 5 | poetical | poetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nature | amod |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 called | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nature | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 I | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 called | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 contrary | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 contrary | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 contrary | det |
| 17 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 possess | punct |
| 19 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 contrary | acl:relcl |
| 20 | profound | profound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knowledge | compound |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 possess | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wit | cc |
| 23 | inexhaustible | inexhaustible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wit | compound |
| 24 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knowledge | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | of a poetical nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | nature | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | possess | present | the contrary not said here | profound knowledge and inexhaustible wit | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knowledge=Theme |
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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