Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 41

The roses are good for nothing but to be looked at and to be smelt, or at most to be stuck in a hat.

Who acts: roses · What happens: be, look · To what, where: smelt, most

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roses	det
2	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 good	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	10 looked	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 looked	aux:pass
10	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 good	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 looked	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smelt	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	15 smelt	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 smelt	cop
15	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stuck	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 stuck	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 most	case
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 stuck	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 stuck	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 stuck	cop
22	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hat	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hat	det
25	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stuck	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the roses			for nothing; good property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive · passive	the roses not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»
3	is a	to-infinitive	the roses not said here	smelt			tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	the roses not said here		most	in a hat; stuck 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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