Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 72
I will practise only the good and true; with these I will protect the beautiful.
Who acts: I · What happens: practise, protect · To what, where: good, beautiful
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 practise | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 practise | aux |
| 3 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 practise | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 true | cc |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 protect | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 these | case |
| 11 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 protect | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 protect | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 protect | aux |
| 14 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 practise | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beautiful | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 protect | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 practise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise | future | I | the good | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protect | future | I | the beautiful | with these | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beautiful=Beneficiary |
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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