Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 21

When one is in the dust-cart,' they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel.

Who acts: one, potsherds · What happens: be, say, not give, wear · To what, where: dust cart, self airs, one, tinsel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, potsherds), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 cart	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cart	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cart	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 cart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cart	det
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cart	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dust	punct
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cart	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 cart	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 give	nsubj
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 give	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	's	's	PART	_	20 one	case
22	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 airs	compound
23	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wear	cc
25	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	conj
26	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wear	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	present	one			the dust cart	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	potsherds = potsherd				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not give	ought	one	self airs	one		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient air=Theme
4	wear	infinitive	one not said here	tinsel			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tinsel=Source

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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