Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 18
It's really a pleasure now and then to become a mere nothing, especially when a man is as highly placed as I am.
What happens: be, become, place · To what, where: pleasure, man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 pleasure | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasure | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 pleasure | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pleasure | det |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pleasure | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 become | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 become | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 become | mark |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasure | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nothing | det |
| 12 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nothing | amod |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 become | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 22 placed | advmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 placed | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux:pass |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 highly | case |
| 21 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 22 placed | obl |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 am | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 am | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pleasure | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | then | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | place | present · passive | a man | especially property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=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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