Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 86

People look at the dress, not at the wearer; thought more of a name than of doing their duty; and trusted more to reputation than to real service.

Who acts: People · What happens: look, think, do, trust · To what, where: more, duty, reputation

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 (People), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 dress	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dress	det
5	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wearer	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wearer	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 wearer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wearer	det
10	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 look	advcl
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 thought	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 name	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 name	det
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 more	obl
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 doing	mark
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 doing	mark
19	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 more	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 duty	nmod:poss
21	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doing	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 trusted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 trusted	cc
24	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 look	conj
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 trusted	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 reputation	case
27	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trusted	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 service	case
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 service	case
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 service	amod
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trusted	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	People			at the wearer; at the dress	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dress=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	People not said here	more			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
3	do	gerund	People not said here	people's duty			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality
4	trust	past	People not said here	more	reputation	than real service	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Theme to reputation=Recipient

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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