Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 34

"'Decided talent,' wrote the editor, 'with the usual carelessness. that he can write incorrect verses may be seen in page 25, where there are two false quantities.

Who acts: Decided talent, editor, two false quantities · What happens: write, see, be · To what, where: editor, incorrect verses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Decided talent, editor, two false quantities), 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	_	7 wrote	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 talent	punct
3	Decided	decided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talent	amod
4	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talent	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 talent	punct
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 editor	det
9	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 carelessness	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 carelessness	det
14	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 carelessness	amod
15	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 write	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 write	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 write	aux
20	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrote	advcl
21	incorrect	incorrect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 verses	amod
22	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seen	nsubj:pass
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 seen	aux:pass
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 write	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 page	case
27	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 25	compound
28	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 seen	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 are	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 are	advmod
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 are	expl
32	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 25	conj
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 quantities	nummod
34	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 quantities	amod
35	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 are	nsubj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	past	Decided talent	the editor		with the usual carelessness	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent editor=Theme
2	write in a quote	can	editor				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	may · passive		incorrect verses			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	does in a quote	present	two false quantities		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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