Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 19

And then to think that we all, even with patent lacquer, are nothing more than insects of a moment on that ant-hill the earth, though we may be insects with stars and garters, places and offices!

Who acts: we · What happens: think, be · To what, where: we, nothing, insects

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: who acts (we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 think	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 think	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 think	mark
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	ADP	_	6 we	case
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 we	det
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lacquer	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 lacquer	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 lacquer	case
11	patent	patent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lacquer	amod
12	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nothing	cop
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 lacquer	appos
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 nothing	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 insects	case
18	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nothing	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 moment	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 insects	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 hill	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 hill	det
24	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hill	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ant	punct
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moment	nmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hill	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 insects	punct
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 insects	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 insects	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 insects	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 insects	cop
34	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 stars	case
36	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 insects	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 garters	cc
38	garters	garter	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stars	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 places	punct
40	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stars	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 offices	cc
42	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stars	conj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	to-infinitive		we	then	with patent lacquer	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot we=Theme
2	is a	present		nothing		than insects of a moment on that ant hill	tree rules
3	is a	may	we	insects		with stars and garters and places and offices	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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