Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 27

"'It will be good for him if we pull him to pieces, and anger him a little, otherwise he will get too good an opinion of himself.'

Who acts: punctuation, we, anger · What happens: be, pull, get, opine · To what, where: editor, pieces, good opinion, anger

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punctuation, we, anger), 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	_	6 good	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 good	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 pull	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 pull	nsubj
11	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pull	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pull	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 little	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 little	cc
17	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 little	nsubj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 anger	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 get	punct
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	25 get	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	conj
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 opinion	amod
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 opinion	det
29	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 himself	case
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 opinion	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	punctuation			for editor; good property	tree rules
2	pull a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	editor	pieces		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to piece=Destination
3	be in a quote		anger				tree rules
4	get in a quote	future	anger	a good opinion of anger		otherwise property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opinion=Stimulus
5	opine in a quote			anger			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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