Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 40
But it must be allowed that, as a man, you are highly respectable.'
Who acts: you · What happens: allow, be · To what, where: opinion
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 allowed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 allowed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 respectable | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 respectable | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 respectable | cop |
| 14 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 15 respectable | advmod |
| 15 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 allowed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | must · passive | opinion | as a man | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | highly, respectable property | tree rules |
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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