Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 37

It is almost unbecoming to tell the story, but there is no doubt about it."

Who acts: It, doubt · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, doubt), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unbecoming	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unbecoming	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 unbecoming	advmod
4	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unbecoming	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 is	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unbecoming	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 doubt	det
14	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 doubt	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unbecoming	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 unbecoming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			almost, unbecoming property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	be	present	no doubt about yard		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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