Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 29

Let us not carp at little faults, but rejoice over the real and abundant good that we find here: he surpasses all the rest.'

Who acts: you, we, anger · What happens: let, rejoice, find, surpass · To what, where: carp, us, rest

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 (you, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 carp	advmod
4	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 faults	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 faults	amod
7	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carp	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rejoice	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 rejoice	cc
10	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
11	over	over	SCONJ	_	16 good	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 good	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 good	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 abundant	cc
15	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 real	conj
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rejoice	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
19	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 good	advcl
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 find	advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 surpasses	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 surpasses	nsubj
23	surpasses	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 rest	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rest	det
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surpasses	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	carp	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient carp=Theme
2	rejoice	present					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	present	we			here	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	surpass	present	anger	all rest			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rest=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: «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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