Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 73
He did not deserve to be admitted at all, and our aunt would not soil her lips with what he said.
Who acts: Mr., aunt · What happens: not deserve, admit, lip, say · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mr., aunt), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deserve | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deserve | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 deserve | advmod |
| 4 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 admitted | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admitted | aux:pass |
| 7 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 deserve | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 admitted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lips | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lips | cc |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 13 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lips | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 soil | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 soil | advmod |
| 16 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aunt | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deserve | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lips | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve | past · do-support | Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | Mr. not said here | all | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: at all=Location | ||||
| 3 | lip | our aunt and soil | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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