Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 39

That was a cut at you because of your conceit.

Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: cut

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 (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cut	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cut	det
4	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nmod
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 conceit	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 conceit	nmod:poss
10	conceit	conceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a cut				at you; because your conceit	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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