Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 54

"He is the grandest and most gallant gentleman in the whole country," said Grubbe the knight; "that is not a thing to despise."

Who acts: thing, grandest gentleman, that · What happens: be, say, not be, despise · To what, where: grandest gentleman, whole country, knight, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing, grandest gentleman, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 gentleman	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gentleman	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gentleman	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gentleman	det
5	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 gentleman	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gallant	cc
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 gallant	advmod
8	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandest	conj
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gentleman	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gentleman	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 gentleman	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 knight	det
19	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 thing	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 thing	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 thing	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thing	det
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 despise	mark
28	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thing	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	thing	the grandest gentleman	the whole country	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the grandest gentleman	the knight		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=Topic
3	not is a in a quote	present	that	a thing		tree rules
4	despise in a quote	to-infinitive	the grandest gentleman not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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