Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 20

One cannot sit and look into one's self till one's tired; one must see people.

Who acts: One · What happens: not sit, look, be, see · To what, where: people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 self	case
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 self	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 one	case
10	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 tired	mark
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tired	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	cop
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
16	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not sit	can	One			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	infinitive	One not said here		into one's self	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into self=Theme
3	is	present	one		tired property	tree rules
4	see	must	one	people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

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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