Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 82

Mr. Waistcoat undoes himself, and addresses his speech to you, that you may applaud; but leave it alone,--that's considered more genteel.

Who acts: Mr. Waistcoat, you, grandpapa · What happens: undo, address, applaud, leave, consider, speak · To what, where: grandpapa, speech, you, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Waistcoat, you, grandpapa), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Waistcoat	compound
2	Waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 undoes	nsubj
3	undoes	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 undoes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 addresses	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 addresses	cc
7	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 undoes	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 speech	nmod:poss
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 addresses	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 addresses	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 applaud	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 applaud	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 applaud	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 applaud	aux
16	applaud	applaud	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 addresses	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 leave	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 leave	cc
19	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 undoes	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 leave	obj
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 leave	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leave	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 considered	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 considered	nsubj:pass
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 considered	aux:pass
26	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 undoes	conj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 genteel	advmod
28	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 considered	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undoes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	undo	present	Mr. Waistcoat	grandpapa			vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument himself=Patient
2	address	present	Mr. Waistcoat not said here	grandpapa's speech	you		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Destination
3	applaud	may	you				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	leave	infinitive		speech		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	consider	present · passive		that		genteel property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
6	speak		grandpapa				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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