Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 31

How foolish it would be for the violin and the bow to boast of their performance, and yet we men often commit that folly.

Who acts: subject, we, men, violin · What happens: be, boast, man, commit, perform · To what, where: folly

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subject, we, men, violin), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 foolish	advmod
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 violin	amod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 violin	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 violin	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 violin	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 violin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 violin	det
8	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bow	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bow	det
11	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 violin	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 boast	mark
13	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bow	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 performance	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 performance	nmod:poss
16	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boast	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 commit	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 commit	cc
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 men	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 men	nsubj
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 commit	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 commit	advmod
23	commit	commit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 violin	parataxis
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 folly	det
25	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 commit	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 violin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	subject			for the foolish violin and the bow	tree rules
2	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	subject not said here			of violin's performance	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	man		we		yet		tree rules
4	commit	present	men	that folly		often property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Theme
5	perform		violin				nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=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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