Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 67
If these are not lighted in you, your particular faculties will not benefit others in the least.
Who acts: particular faculties · What happens: not light, not benefit · To what, where: these, others, least
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (particular faculties), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 lighted | mark |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lighted | advmod |
| 5 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 benefit | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lighted | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 faculties | nmod:poss |
| 10 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faculties | amod |
| 11 | faculties | faculty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 benefit | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 benefit | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 benefit | advmod |
| 14 | benefit | benefit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 benefit | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 least | det |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 benefit | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 benefit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not light a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | these | in you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not benefit | future | your particular faculties | others | the least | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer other=Beneficiary |
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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