Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 19
You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights, and utter such high natural tones.
Who acts: You, calm discretion · What happens: have, sight, not take · To what, where: genius, such lofty flights
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, calm discretion), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighted | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sighted | cc |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sighted | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 clear | punct |
| 8 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 10 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 discretion | amod |
| 11 | discretion | discretion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 take | advmod |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sighted | conj |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flights | amod |
| 16 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flights | amod |
| 17 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tones | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tones | cc |
| 20 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tones | amod |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tones | amod |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tones | amod |
| 23 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tones | amod |
| 24 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flights | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | genius | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sight | participle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | not take | present · do-support | calm discretion | such lofty flights and utter such high natural tones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=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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