Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 87
Be a good man, and honor those in authority over you.
Who acts: good man · What happens: be, honor · To what, where: those, authority
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good man), 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 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Be | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honor | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 honor | cc |
| 7 | honor | honor | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Be | parataxis |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 honor | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 authority | case |
| 10 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 those | nmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 honor | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | a good man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | honor | infinitive | those | authority | over you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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