Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 47

The man whose duty it was to deliver a letter gave himself as many airs as he who took the part of first lover in the piece; he declared that the inferior parts were as important as the great ones, and deserving equal consideration, as parts of an artistic whole.

Who acts: duty, man, letter, inferior parts · What happens: duty, be, give, take, declare, deserve · To what, where: many airs, letter, part, piece, equal consideration · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duty, man, letter, inferior parts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deliver	nsubj
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 duty	nmod:poss
4	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 duty	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deliver	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 deliver	mark
8	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 letter	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deliver	ccomp
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 gave	iobj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 airs	amod
15	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 took	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 part	det
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 lover	case
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 lover	amod
24	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 part	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 piece	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 declared	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 declared	nsubj
30	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deliver	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 important	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 parts	det
33	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 parts	amod
34	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 important	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 important	cop
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 important	advmod
37	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 declared	ccomp
38	as	as	ADP	_	41 ones	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ones	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 ones	amod
41	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 important	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 deserving	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 deserving	cc
44	deserving	deserve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 declared	advcl
45	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 consideration	amod
46	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 deserving	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 parts	punct
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 parts	case
49	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 deserving	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 whole	case
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 whole	det
52	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 whole	amod
53	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 parts	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deliver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	duty		duty					tree rules
2	is	past	the man and the man and the man's duty's duty				deliver property	tree rules
3	give	past	a letter	many airs	letter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient air=Theme
4	take	past	man	the part of first lover		the piece		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in piece=Location
5	declare speech: other	past	man					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the inferior parts				as the great ones; important property	tree rules
7	deserve	gerund	man not said here	equal consideration			as parts of a artistic whole	tree rules

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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