Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 227

Every man has his own way, and Soren has his; but the horse must not be judged by the halter.

Who acts: man, Soren · What happens: have, not judge · To what, where: own way, man, horse

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Soren), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 has	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 judged	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 judged	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 judged	nsubj:pass
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 judged	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 judged	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 judged	aux:pass
19	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 has	parataxis
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 halter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 halter	det
22	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 judged	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	every man	man's own way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	have	present	Soren	man		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Patient
3	not judge	must · passive		the horse	by the halter	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

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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